GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — An 11-year-old boy shot himself in the chest Monday and is now in the hospital, the Glynn County Police Department said.
Police do not know if he shot himself intentionally or not.
Police responded to a home on Roswell Drive and found the child suffering from a gunshot wound.
The gun owner's name is redacted from the police report on the incident. The report does say that the boy's father told police they visited the shooting range often. He said he taught his son about gun safety and would not have expected his son to pick up a gun.
The boy's father said he was upstairs eating dinner when he learned a "loud bang" upstairs. He thought it was glass breaking, but when he entered the child's bedroom, "blood was everywhere" and "the smell of iron was throughout the room."
When the father called 911, he told the operator that the child was conscious and alert.
The child was taken to Shands Medical Center in Jacksonville for treatment.