The shooting happened Thursday in Erie, Pennsylvania, when the child found a loaded, small-caliber handgun and fired it at his 26-year-old father.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.A 3-year-old Erie boy shot his sleeping father in the buttocks with a gun he found in their Pennsylvania home, authorities said.
The shooting happened about 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Erie, when the child found a loaded, small-caliber handgun and fired it at his 26-year-old father. The dad was being treated at a hospital for wounds that are not considered life-threatening. His name has not been released. It's not clear how the child found the handgun, authorities said. Two other children in the house at the time were not injured.
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