Felons need to practice gun safety

Gun safety is for everyone, including lawbreakers. Here’s why:

A Desert Hot Springs man who accidentally shot himself and his son Thursday afternoon was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a gun.

Police were called to the 66-600 block of Estrella Avenue just before 2 p.m. where they found the teen and his father, Ronald Russell, 36, wounded by a shotgun.

Both were being checked at a local hospital for non life-threatening wounds from birdshot after the shotgun was mishandled inside a garage, Sgt. Jim Henson said.

Birdshot are small pellets loaded into a shotgun for hunting birds.

The investigation is continuing and no other details were immediately available from police.
Source: http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2014/10/30/desert-hot-springs-man-accidentally-shoots-self-son/18213257/

 

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