{"id":383212,"date":"2026-07-23T01:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383212\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:11:19","slug":"leveon-moss-reportedly-arrested-after-son-accidentally-shoots-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383212\/","title":{"rendered":"Le&#8217;Veon Moss reportedly arrested after son accidentally shoots himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moss&#8217; two-year-old son accidentally shot himself with an unsecured firearm, according to an arrest affidavit cited in the report. Police arrived at a Baton Rouge hospital early Monday afternoon when Moss&#8217; child arrived with a gunshot wound. Moss and his girlfriend told police the incident happened at their apartment. The health status of Moss&#8217; child has not yet been made public.<\/p>\n<p>Moss told officers that he had placed a loaded gun underneath a pillow in his bedroom and his child found the weapon and accidentally fired it.<\/p>\n<p>The affidavit obtained by KBTX-TV said that &#8220;due to Moss&#8217; negligence, a child under the age of seventeen suffered unjustifiable pain.&#8221; He was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on one felony count of cruelty to juveniles, with bond set at $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday evening, online records searches show Moss is still in police custody.<\/p>\n<p>He retired from football just four days after signing with Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moss&#8217; two-year-old son accidentally shot himself with an unsecured firearm, according to an arrest affidavit cited in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1638,96495,27,29,28,88145],"class_list":["post-383212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-brief","tag-sports-texas-am-aggies","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-colleges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}