Chicago mom charged after gun goes off in son’s backpack, hits classmate

Tatanina Kelly was charged with three counts of kid endangerment after her second-grade son introduced a gun to highschool that discharged and grazed a fellow scholar.
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A Chicago mom has been charged after her second-grade son discovered her gun underneath her mattress and introduced it to highschool the place it by chance discharged and grazed a 7-year-old classmate on Tuesday.

Tatanina Kelly, 28, was arraigned on Wednesday on three misdemeanor youngster endangerment counts. She was launched from the Cook dinner County Jail on a $1,000 bond.

“We're inches away, presumably centimeters away, from a really completely different case and a really completely different tragedy,” Cook dinner County Choose Michael Hogan mentioned on the listening to.

Prosecutors alleged that Kelly’s 8-year-old son discovered the gun beneath his mom’s mattress and introduced it to Walt Disney Magnet College on town’s North Aspect in a backpack, the Chicago Solar-Instances reported.

Simply earlier than 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the gun discharged, cops mentioned.

The gunfire “brought on some particles to ricochet in your youngster’s classroom, which hit a member of our college group and brought on minor scrapes,” the varsity’s principal informed dad and mom in an electronic mail.

Prosecutors say that the kid discovered the gun underneath his mom Tatanina Kelly’s mattress.

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The 7-year-old sufferer was grazed within the abdomen and was taken to the hospital in secure situation.

After the gun was discharged, a instructor grabbed the backpack and handed it over to highschool safety officers who discovered a Glock 19 handgun inside, prosecutors mentioned Wednesday.

Kelly legally obtained the weapon and has a sound firearm proprietor’s identification card.

Cook dinner County Choose Michael Hogan known as Tatanina Kelly “supremely negligent.”

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Kelly’s legal professional, Rodger Clarke, conceded that the firearm ought to have been correctly locked away, however mentioned the incident “ wasn’t one thing she [Kelly] deliberate or one thing she did on her personal volition.”

Choose Hogan mentioned that whereas the taking pictures could not have been intentional, Kelly’s failure to retailer the gun correctly was “supremely negligent.”

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