{"id":198111,"date":"2026-05-20T18:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198111\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:59:32","slug":"scranton-child-shoots-hand-with-dads-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/198111\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton child shoots hand with dad&#8217;s gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 10-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a> boy shot himself in the hand Tuesday with pistol that the police said his father left out within the boy&#8217;s reach, city police said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was hospitalized at around 9 p.m. after the incident at his Cherry Street home, authorities said. The bullet went through his left hand. He was reportedly in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The child&#8217;s father, Michael A. Lemongello, 56, was arrested and charged with a count of child endangerment. A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled June 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a criminal complaint, acting Detective Jill Foley wrote that Lemongello left his loaded 9 mm Taurus gun on a shelf next to his bed while his son watched television. Lemongello said he briefly stepped away from the room then heard the boom of a gunshot.<\/p>\n<p>Lemongello&#8217;s significant other, Joy Smith, told officers she had yelled at him in the past to keep the guns locked in a safe because their boy is curious and wants to touch everything.<\/p>\n<p>Magisterial District Judge Alyce Hailstone Farrell arraigned Lemongello and released him on $20,000 unsecured bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 A 10-year-old Scranton boy shot himself in the hand Tuesday with pistol that the police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-198111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}