A man in Mooresville was charged Sunday after a boy shot another boy in the face while playing cops and robbers in the man’s home.
Daniel Layne Stewart received a charge of failing to properly secure a gun to protect a minor, according to a Iredell Sheriff’s Office news release.
An 11-year-old was playing cops and robbers with his 8-year-old friend in the backyard of the home Stewart owns on Peterborough Drive, off Faith Road, when the 8-year-old found a hidden rifle in an outbuilding, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The 11-year-old opened the outbuilding door and the 8-year-old then fired the gun and hit the other boy in the cheek.
The 11-year-old was taken to Lake Norman Regional Medical Center’s emergency room before being transferred to Carolinas Medical Center’s Levine Children’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and to have bullet fragments removed.
Stewart has been released from jail in Iredell County on an unsecured bail.
