Four-Year-Old Alaskan Injured In Negligent Discharge

By Bob Owens

A child in Wasilla, Alaska was seriously injured Saturday afternoon when his mother’s revolver slipped out of its holster as she was getting out of her pickup truck.

A 4-year-old boy from Wasilla was shot through the leg, after his mother’s gun fell out of its holster and discharged, Alaska State Troopers wrote in a dispatch, Saturday afternoon.

At around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, troopers responded to reports of a child with a gunshot wound to the leg, at 4900 E Palmer-Wasilla highway.

Investigations revealed that “as the family was getting out of their pickup truck in the parking lot the …read more

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