A 53-year-old man and his 10-year-old son have been arrested Saturday in Sacramento County after the boy fatally shot one other youngster utilizing a stolen gun he had present in his father’s automotive, regulation enforcement officers mentioned.
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a capturing within the 4700 block of Greenholm Drive in Foothill Farms, an unincorporated group about 20 minutes exterior downtown Sacramento, simply after 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
Deputies discovered a 10-year-old boy who was unresponsive mendacity in the midst of a car parking zone bleeding from his head and neck. The boy, whom police didn’t publicly establish, later died at a hospital, in accordance with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Witnesses recognized these concerned within the capturing and directed deputies to a close-by condo, the place they discovered Arkete Davis and two youngsters, certainly one of whom was his son.
Authorities mentioned the boy, whom they didn’t establish by identify, had grabbed the gun from his dad’s automotive whereas he was retrieving his father’s cigarettes from the automobile. The boy had “bragged that his father had a gun” earlier than he shot the opposite youngster, the sheriff’s workplace wrote in a information launch. It’s not clear whether or not the 2 youngsters knew one another.
Detectives discovered a firearm that had been reported stolen in 2017 in a close-by trash can the place authorities allege Davis tried to get rid of it. The boy was arrested on suspicion of homicide and brought to the Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility, authorities mentioned.
Davis was arrested on suspicion of carrying a stolen loaded firearm in a automobile, endangering the life of a kid, illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, accent after the actual fact and prison storage of a firearm, all felonies, in accordance with regulation enforcement and jail data. He’s being held in lieu of $500,000 bail and is predicted to look in courtroom Wednesday, in accordance with jail data.