{"id":15589,"date":"2022-08-13T02:48:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T02:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/father-accidentally-shoots-teenage-son-in-meriden-while-teaching-him-about-firearms-hartford-courant\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T02:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T02:48:22","slug":"father-accidentally-shoots-teenage-son-in-meriden-while-teaching-him-about-firearms-hartford-courant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15589","title":{"rendered":"Father accidentally shoots teenage son in Meriden while teaching him about firearms &#8211; Hartford Courant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 cUoiQo body-paragraph\">A Meriden father accidentally shot his 17-year-old son Friday afternoon while allegedly teaching the boy about firearms, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 cUoiQo body-paragraph\">The teenager was shot near his shoulder with a 9 mm handgun around 3:05 p.m. Friday on Forest Avenue, according to the Meriden Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 cUoiQo body-paragraph\">The boy&#8217;s father accidentally shot him while &#8220;he had been showing him the gun,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 cUoiQo body-paragraph\">&#8220;The father planned to acclimatize his son to firearms in order to begin firearms training at a local gun range in the near future,&#8221; the police department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 cUoiQo body-paragraph\">The boy was taken to the hospital by ambulance and then transferred to a trauma center by Life Star, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 cUoiQo body-paragraph\">Police were still at the scene of the shooting Friday evening and the investigation was ongoing.  No one else was injured in the shooting, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 cUoiQo body-paragraph\">No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/breaking-news\/hc-br-meriden-dad-accidental-shooting-17-year-old-20220812-i4xng2pyufevnllywhtxdwke54-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Meriden father accidentally shot his 17-year-old son Friday afternoon while allegedly teaching the boy about firearms, police said. The teenager was shot near his shoulder with a 9 mm handgun around 3:05 p.m. Friday on Forest Avenue, according to the Meriden Police Department. The boy&#8217;s father accidentally shot him while &#8220;he had been showing him the gun,&#8221; police said. &#8220;The father planned to acclimatize his son to firearms in order to begin firearms training at a local gun range in the near future,&#8221; the police department said in a statement. The boy was taken to the hospital by ambulance&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}