NEW YORK — An Indiana man was arrested after his 4-year-old son was captured on security camera footage playing with a loaded gun in their apartment complex's hallway alone, police said.
Shane Osborne, 45, was initially charged with neglect of a dependent following the incident on Saturday, according to the Beech Grove Police Department. Police determined that the child was holding a Smith & Wesson handgun that was loaded with 15 rounds in the magazine, but did not have a round chambered, according to the police report.
A neighbor then flagged the officers down as they were leaving the building and showed them security camera footage of the incident in which the child could be seen"walking around the upstairs landing of the apartment with a silver and black handgun," according to the report. Osborne was arrested for neglect of a dependent and his son was transported to his mother's home, police said. The arrest"gained national attention" after it was captured on the television show"On Patrol: Live," which the Beech Grove Police Department appears in, according to Beech Grove deputy chief of administration Robert Mercuri.
"When my son went to go back out, when he opened the door, he just slowly closed it and said, 'Everybody get out of the living room, there's a baby with a gun,'" she said.
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