A 53-year-old man and his 10-year-old son had been arrested Saturday in Sacramento County after the boy fatally shot one other baby utilizing a stolen gun he had present in his father’s automobile, legislation enforcement officers mentioned.
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a taking pictures within the 4700 block of Greenholm Drive in Foothill Farms, an unincorporated neighborhood about 20 minutes exterior downtown Sacramento, simply after 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Deputies discovered a 10-year-old boy who was unresponsive mendacity in the midst of a car parking zone bleeding from his head and neck. The boy, whom police didn’t publicly establish, later died at a hospital, in accordance with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Witnesses recognized these concerned within the taking pictures and directed deputies to a close-by residence, the place they discovered Arkete Davis and two youngsters, one in every of whom was his son.
Authorities mentioned the boy, whom they didn’t establish by identify, had grabbed the gun from his dad’s automobile whereas he was retrieving his father’s cigarettes from the car. The boy had “bragged that his father had a gun” earlier than he shot the opposite baby, the sheriff’s workplace wrote in a information launch. It isn’t clear whether or not the 2 youngsters knew one another.
Detectives discovered a firearm that had been reported stolen in 2017 in a close-by trash can the place authorities allege Davis tried to get rid of it. The boy was arrested on suspicion of homicide and brought to the Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility, authorities mentioned.
Davis was arrested on suspicion of carrying a stolen loaded firearm in a car, endangering the life of a kid, illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, accent after the actual fact and legal storage of a firearm, all felonies, in accordance with legislation enforcement and jail information. He’s being held in lieu of $500,000 bail and is anticipated to seem in court docket Wednesday, in accordance with jail information.