Purported father told police he was ill the day toddler walked outside with a handgun - CNN

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The purported begetter of a toddler seen successful the entryway of an Indiana flat analyzable waving a handgun said helium was sick and unaware the lad had near the residence.

Shane Osborne “explained that helium had been sick each time and did not cognize (the toddler had) near the apartment,” an serviceman said successful a probable origin affidavit.

The toddler is identified successful the affidavit arsenic “K.O.”

Osborne fto the officers execute a “cursory look throughout” the apartment, according to the affidavit, but constabulary did not find a firearm, “in plain view.” Officers near the flat but were met by a acrophobic neighbour with information video of the toddler with the gun, the affidavit said.

The information video was aired by the Reelz bid “On Patrol: Live,” during the TV show’s unrecorded broadcast connected Saturday, according to a quality release. The amusement identified Osborne arsenic the boy’s father.

“The video showed K.O. walking astir the upstairs landing of the Beech Grove flat with a metallic and achromatic handgun,” the affidavit said. Officers returned to the flat wherever Osborne was staying and questioned him again.

Osborne told constabulary helium did not person a gun, “but indicated that a comparative whitethorn person near 1 somewhere.”

Officer Rainerio Comia asked K.O., “where helium enactment his ‘pew pew,’” aft different flat hunt seemed to crook up empty, according to the affidavit.

That’s erstwhile K.O. led officers to a roll-top table wherever officers recovered the gun, the affidavit said.

Osborne told officers the weapon was not his and that it belonged to a relative “who sometimes near the limb (there) erstwhile helium felt mentally unstable,” the affidavit said.

“He did not cognize the limb was successful the flat astatine this time, nor that K.O. knew wherever it was,” the affidavit said. “He believed K.O. was wrong the apartment, playing and watching television. However, helium stated that helium indispensable person been precise asleep, due to the fact that helium did not announcement K.O. permission the apartment.”

The lad was near successful Osborne’s attraction due to the fact that his superior caregiver was sicker than helium was, the affidavit said. Osborne was yet handcuffed and taken retired of the apartment, CNN antecedently reported.

He faces a complaint related to neglect of a babelike and is scheduled for his archetypal tribunal quality Thursday afternoon.