NEWTON, N.C.- Eight-year-old Sam Grant was in Catawba County District Court Friday on charges of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
The charges were filed as a result of an incident that happened in February. Sam’s parents said he was playing with a BB gun outside and aimed at an abandoned house nearby. But then he somehow managed to shoot at and hit two cars as they passed by, causing some damage. No one was injured.
His parents said they paid for the damages, but the sheriff’s office charged the boy with two felony counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.
The judge dismissed Sam’s case.
Sam’s father, Johnny Robbins, says Sam was shaking in fear as he waited for his name to be called.
We’re just happy that the kid didn’t shoot his eye out.
