A Grambling youth was shot late Friday night after a bullet from an apparent accidental discharge of a pistol penetrated his apartment.
Police officers were dispatched to a report of an injured person at an apartment on Martin Luther King Avenue about 11:45 p.m. Friday night. A woman told GPD officers her juvenile son had been shot in his right arm and that the bullet had come from an adjacent apartment.
The child was reportedly lying on his bed at the time of the incident. The child was transported to the Northern Louisiana Medical Center by ambulance.
Police spoke to Donald R. Nabors, 21, who reportedly admitted to accidentally dropping the pistol. Nabors said the pistol fell on a bed railing and discharged, with the bullet penetrating the wall to the adjoining apartment. A KelTec .22 pistol was recovered at the scene.
Nabors was arrested and booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center for aggravated second degree battery with a firearm and simple criminal damage to property.
Bail was set. $105,000.
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