SAN ANTONIO — A two-year-old child may have been playing with a gun when it went off once and hit him in the face, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
Police said the child was in critical but stable condition after a single shot rang out at a northwest-side home on Saturday evening around 7:20 p.m., hitting the child in the left cheek and clipping his ear.
Investigators were on the scene trying to figure out what happened, and were waiting on a search warrant to enter the home. They said the father was in the home but said he didn't hear the shot, and that two other family members were there and did hear it. Police believe the gun involved was a 9 mm handgun.
Police initially said they weren't sure if charges would be filed in the case, but later said the child's father was arrested for endangering a child and making a firearm accessible to a child. he was identified as Fabian Cardenas, 20.
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