Indiana man arrested after toddler shown on live TV with handgun - CNN

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A antheral was arrested successful Beech Grove, Indiana, aft video was shown connected unrecorded TV of a toddler, reportedly the man’s son, waving and pulling the trigger of a handgun.

The video was aired by Reelz bid “On Patrol: Live,” during the TV show’s unrecorded broadcast connected Saturday, January 14, according to a quality release.

A constabulary incidental study obtained by CNN affiliate WTHR said Shane Osborne, faces a neglect charge. The study besides lists “ring camera footage” that was obtained and uploaded to a constabulary server. A 9mm weapon recovered astatine the country had 15 rounds successful the magazine, but nary rounds successful the gun’s chamber, the study said.

Osborne is expected to look successful tribunal Tuesday afternoon, according to WTHR. The amusement identified Osborne arsenic the boy’s father.

Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley released a connection to WTHR saying helium was “mortified” astir the incident.

“As with each of you, I’m mortified and what took spot and I’m truthful thankful that nary 1 was hurt, particularly the young child. I admit the speedy enactment taken by the Beech Grove Police Department to unafraid the tiny kid and the weapon successful question.”

Video from a neighbor’s information camera that aired connected “On Patrol: Live,” shows a small lad successful the entryway of an flat analyzable waving a handgun backmost and distant and pulling the trigger.

According to a merchandise from the show, Beech Grove constabulary officers responded aft a neighbour called 911, “stating she and her lad had witnessed the kid unsocial successful the hallway extracurricular their unit, and that helium had been holding a weapon and pointing it astatine them.”

When officers arrived, the purported begetter of the kid said helium did not person a gun. “I don’t person a gun,” the antheral said, arsenic constabulary entered his apartment, “I person ne'er brought a weapon into this house, if determination is, it’s my cousin’s.”

Police proceeded to hunt the flat looking for a weapon and yet recovered a firearm nether a tv successful the surviving room.

It’s unclear if it’s the aforesaid weapon seen successful the neighbor’s information footage, but 1 of the officers connected the country says it’s a “Smith & Wesson SD9mm.”

Police are aboriginal seen taking the man, handcuffed, retired of the flat complex.

An serviceman said aft speaking with on-call prosecutors, determination was capable for an apprehension “for kid neglect, that’s a felony,” since determination was a loaded firearm successful the apartment.

CNN has reached retired to the Beech Grove constabulary department, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and the mayor’s bureau for remark and much information.

It is unclear if Osborne has an lawyer astatine this time. CNN has reached retired to the nationalist defender’s bureau for much information.