The boy's mother said she and her husband had taken the boy to a shooting range to teach him how to fire a handgun.
Jacob Grayson told investigators his 6-year-old son removed one of two loaded handguns from a safe and shot his sister, police said.
Grayson, 28, and his 27-year-old wife, Kimberly Grayson, were preliminarily charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death and three other counts of neglect, Deputy Police Chief Melissa Criswell said. The boy told police he found the key to the safe in his parents' bedroom and removed the gun while his mother was napping.
The parents told police their son had opened the safe before, and Kimberly Grayson said she and her husband had taken the boy to a shooting range to teach him how to fire a handgun., so far this year there have been at least 158 unintentional shootings by children in the U.S., resulting in 68 deaths and 99 injuries.by his 5-year-old brother at an Arkansas home in what the local sheriff called a"tragic accident.
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