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Couple arrested after their four-year-old son accidentally shot himself between the eyes could face ten years in jail
- A couple have been arrested after their son, 4, shot himself between the eyes
- Heather Lyn Odom and Jeremy Jermaine Barrett face charges of unlawful neglect of a child which carry a sentence of 10 years in jail
- The boy found the .38-caliber gun in his mother's purse at a Myrtle Beach resort
- The parents were in another room at the time of the shooting
Two parents are under arrest after their four-year-old son shot himself with his mother's gun in a South Carolina hotel.
Myrtle
Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with
child neglect after the boy shot himself in the head around 7 p.m.
Saturday.
The mother called it a tragic accident during her bond hearing on Sunday.
Myrtle
Beach police have charged Heather Lynn Odom and Jeremy Barrett with
child neglect after their son shot himself in the head
Heather Lyn Odom and Jeremy
Barrett were released but will be in court in September when they face
the prospect of being jailed for ten years on charges of unlawful
neglect of a child
'I just want
to say this was just a tragic accident and it's something that shouldn't
have happened, but it did,' said Heather Lynn Odom.
Investigators
said the boy found the .38-caliber handgun in Odom's purse while she
and Barrett were in another room in the hotel suite at at the Oceans One
Resort in Myrtle Beach.
Police said the boy was in critical condition at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center.
'This is a very tragic incident, your honor,' Myrtle Beach Police Detective A. Walker said.
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