2 hurt when 3-year-old boy pulls trigger on gun in Charlotte hotel room, police say
A bullet grazed a 3-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man in a north Charlotte hotel room after the toddler found and pulled the trigger on a gun, police said.
Medic drove the boy to a hospital, but he was expected to be OK, police said.
Both people suffered “non-life threatening graze wounds” after the toddler found “the unsecured firearm and accidentally fired the weapon” at about 8 p.m. Friday, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department news release.
According to the CMPD news release, 19-year-old Davione Marquis Robinson was charged with felony child abuse, storing a firearm in a manner accessible to a minor, felony possession of cocaine and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.
The shooting happened in a Budget Inn hotel room in the 4300 block of Old Interstate Road, off North Graham Street at Interstate 85.
The toddler and the 19-year-old are brothers, Charlotte Observer news partner WBTV reported.
The bullet grazed the toddler’s head and his brother’s shoulder, WSOC-TV reported.
Robinson is free on $3,000 bail, Mecklenburg County jail records show.