{"id":57068,"date":"2023-02-03T15:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57068"},"modified":"2023-02-03T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:54:00","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-facing-charges-after-8-year-old-accidentally-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/02\/lehigh-acres-man-facing-charges-after-8-year-old-accidentally-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man facing charges after 8-year-old accidentally shot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 56-year-old Lee County man is facing a misdemeanor charge after one of his children was shot with a firearm that wasn\u2019t stored properly.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-5.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-5-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to a warrant request affidavit, Pedro Luis Estevez did not secure two guns properly which led to the accidental shooting of his 8-year-old son in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estevez said he left two guns in a kitchen cabinet above the stove because his home was not locked in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But besides that, Estevez said, he keeps his guns secured and locked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Nov. 14, two of the couple\u2019s sons were sent to bed to sleep, but instead, they went to the kitchen, and the 8-year-old climbed on top of the counter and grabbed the guns from the cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kids went back to their bedroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their bedroom, one of the brothers disengaged the safety, which led to the gun firing and injuring the 8-year-old boy in the hand and his foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the report, it\u2019s unclear if the boy shot himself or the younger brother fired the gun by mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Estevez and his wife are parents to five children, who they fostered and then later adopted, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Estevez has been arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 56-year-old Lee County man is facing a misdemeanor charge after one of his children was shot with a firearm that wasn\u2019t stored properly. According to a warrant request affidavit,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068"}],"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=57068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57071,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57068\/revisions\/57071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}