Chicago police say a mother has been charged with child endangerment after a gun in her second grader’s backpack accidentally discharged at school, injuring a 7-year-old classmate
Highlights
- Chicago police say a gun in a second grader’s backpack accidentally discharged at school.
- The 28-year-old woman appeared in court on Wednesday on three misdemeanor child endangerment counts.
- A judge ordered her release from Cook County Jail on $1,000 bond.
- The bullet ricocheted off the floor and grazed the child’s abdomen, police said.
- The child was taken to a hospital in good condition; the school did not respond to a request for comment.
- The mother’s attorney acknowledged that the gun should have been locked up and not just placed under the bed, but said, “This wasn’t something she planned”