Two adults have been charged with felonies after a 6-year-old boy who died accidentally shooting himself, the Fort Collins Police Services said.
Authorities responded to a call just before 6:30 p.m. saying that a child in a home in the 1200 block of East Lincoln Avenue had shot himself, police said in a news release. Police and emergency responders found the child with injuries consistent with a gunshot wound and transported him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Following an investigation, Fort Collins police learned that the boy’s mother, Rosinetta Mackall, 40, had taken the handgun the 6-year-old shot himself with out earlier in the day. She is accused of leaving the unsecured weapon laying in an area her children had frequent access to, police said. Summers is believed to have grabbed the gun and accidentally shot himself hours afterward, police said.
Ron Matthews, Mackall’s husband, was not present at the home or living there at the time of the accident, but police alleged Matthews “lied and tampered with evidence of their conversation” when he was questioned about his interactions with Mackall surrounding the incident. Mackall has been charged with felony child abuse and misdemeanor unlawful storage of a firearm and Matthews has been charged with felony attempt to influence a public servant and misdemeanor tampering with physical evidence.
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