Police arrested a North Carolina man after a four-year-old boy died of a gun shot wound on Wednesday, NBC affiliate WCNC of Charlotte reported.
Police arrested Dayshawn St. Paul Warren — who a number of sources informed WCNC is the boy’s father — and charged him with involuntary manslaughter and promoting or giving a weapon to a minor in reference to the taking pictures, the native affiliate reported.
Authorities responded to the scene on Charleston Place, in southeast Charlotte, on Wednesday round 7:30 p.m., based on a information launch from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Division. Emergency medical personnel transported the boy to a neighborhood hospital, the place he was later pronounced useless.
Police earlier stated they had been investigating the incident after strolling again the division’s preliminary dedication that the boy’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted, WCNC reported.
NBC Information couldn’t instantly attain the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Division for remark.