TAMPA, FL \u2014 A man was arrested Tuesday after his girlfriend\u2019s 3-year-old son was injured when he found his unsecured gun at a Tampa home and accidentally shot himself, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Steve Johnson, 30, was charged with felon in possession of a firearm, child neglect with great bodily harm, safe storage of firearms and possession of cannabis less than 20 grams, Tampa police said in a news release. <\/p>\n
When officers responded to the 3600 block of N. 51st Street, they found the boy with a gunshot wound to his arm.<\/p>\n
The child had been in bed with his mother and Johnson, her boyfriend, around 7:15 p.m., when he left the gun in the bed after getting up to use the bathroom, police said. <\/p>\n
The boy accessed the gun, which discharged, the bullet hitting the child in the forearm, investigators said. <\/p>\n
His mother immediately rendered aid to his gunshot wound and called 911. The boy was brought to a nearby hospital with stable, non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n
“It is incredibly fortunate that this was not a fatal tragedy,” Chief Lee Bercaw said. “This incident highlights the double danger of a convicted felon unlawfully possessing a firearm and then failing to secure it. A gun should never be within reach of a child. There is no excuse for such negligence when the cost could easily have been a young life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 A man was arrested Tuesday after his girlfriend\u2019s 3-year-old son was injured when he found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-234291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}