4-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Himself While Leaving Deer Stand in Panola County

Panola County deputies responded Saturday evening after a 911 call reported a child with a gunshot wound.

According to the Panola County Sheriff’s Office, dispatch received the call at 5:39 p.m. on November 8 from a parent who said their spouse was taking their 4-year-old to the UT Health Carthage emergency room.

Deputies arrived to find the boy being treated for a gunshot wound to the leg. Investigators said the child and his father were leaving a deer stand near Ragley Road (County Road 182) when the boy discharged a pistol that the father had been carrying in a holster…

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