A five-year-old boy was recovering after being shot inside his Oakley home on Sunday after his father accidentally fired an AR-15 rifle he was in the process of cleaning, police said.
The incident happened at a home on Hemlock Court, just south of W. Cypress Road and east of Empire Avenue at about 9:25 p.m. The Oakley Police Department said in a press release that officers responded to a report that a man shot himself while cleaning his guns. On the way over, the call was updated to indicate it was actually a five-year-old boy who had been shot in the chest, police said.
Officers arrived to find the father holding his son and applying pressure to his gunshot wound. Police said the boy was taken by helicopter to a hospital and was expected to make a full recovery after surgery…