Boy critically injured in Utah accidental shooting

Carter Williams, KSL.com

LEHI, Utah (KSL.com) — A boy was taken to a infirmary successful “extremely captious condition” aft apparently accidentally shooting himself successful nan caput Monday evening, constabulary said.

Lehi constabulary responded to nan study of a shooting wrong a car parked extracurricular of nan Maverik convenience shop located astatine 3569 N. Thanksgiving Way soon earlier 7:40 p.m., according to Lehi constabulary spokeswoman Jeanteil Livingston.

She said a kid had accidentally changeable himself successful nan head. An on-duty serviceman arrived and performed lifesaving measures pinch thief from bystanders earlier nan kid was taken to a adjacent infirmary and past flown to different infirmary on nan Wasatch Front.

The incident remains nether investigation, and nary different specifications were released. Lehi Police Sgt. Jeff Smith said officers were still collecting grounds and piecing together what happened. Barriers were placed betwixt nan convenience shop and nan beforehand stalls, wherever nan conveyance was parked.

Doug Shields, who was astatine nan shop astatine nan clip of nan incident, said he saw nan boy’s mother frantically yelling for thief and a young boy covered successful blood. While others rushed to thief nan child, he and different man helped nan mother, who concisely passed retired earlier she described what happened.

“She goes, ‘He changeable himself. He changeable himself. He changeable himself. … He recovered nan weapon nether my spot and pulled nan trigger.’ It was apparently an accident. A full accident,” Shields said, adding that nan mother said nan boy was 8 years old, he added.

Smith said nan incident serves arsenic a sad reminder astir nan value of weapon information and making judge children don’t person easy entree to a weapon.

It comes a small complete a week aft a 5-year-old Santaquin boy died from what was wished to beryllium an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. A Magna female was besides charged past week aft prosecutors said her 3-year-old boy had easy entree to a weapon and accidentally changeable himself successful nan ft connected Aug. 2.

“It’s ace tragic,” Smith said. “We dislike responding to these types of things.”

Contributing: Andrew Adams