{"id":38469,"date":"2016-01-19T10:50:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38469"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:50:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:50:58","slug":"toddlers-uncle-charged-with-negligence-in-accidental-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/01\/toddlers-uncle-charged-with-negligence-in-accidental-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler&#8217;s Uncle Charged with<br> Negligence in Accidental Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38470\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38470\" title=\"Trevon Armstrong\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trevon-Armstrong-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trevon-Armstrong-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Trevon-Armstrong.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevon Armstrong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Fort Myers man\u00a0is under arrest after his two year old niece accidentally shot herself with the gun he\u00a0carelessly left lying on a bed.\u00a0 Trevon Armstrong of 554 Alabama Road, Lehigh Acres, turned himself in at the Lee County Jail last night and faces charges of Culpable Negligence\u00a0and Possession of a Weapon by a Convicted Felon.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigation, Armstrong, his sister, and her toddler all resided at the same residence at 554 Alabama Road, Lehigh Acres.\u00a0 On October 19, 2015 at approximately\u00a05:00 p.m., the toddler and her mother were in Armstrong&#8217;s room, when the mother left the room to charge her I-Pad.\u00a0 The victim&#8217;s mother says twenty seconds after leaving the room, she heard a loud &#8220;pop.&#8221;\u00a0 As she reentered the room, she observed what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the toddler&#8217;s abdomen and noticed a black semiautomatic pistol fall from the bedding.\u00a0 The toddler was rushed to the hospital and luckily survived her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Major Crimes Unit determined that the gun belonged to Armstrong, that he left the firearm in an unsafe and easily accessible location&#8230;and by doing so showed complete disregard for the safety of the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong was forbidden from possessing a firearm\u00a0due to a previous felony conviction.\u00a0 His rap sheet is\u00a0scattered with drug and weapons possession charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fort Myers man\u00a0is under arrest after his two year old niece accidentally shot herself with the gun he\u00a0carelessly left lying on a bed.\u00a0 Trevon Armstrong of 554 Alabama Road,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}