The purported father of a toddler seen in the entryway of an Indiana apartment complex waving a handgun said he was ill and unaware the boy had left the residence.
Shane Osborne "explained that he had been ill all day and did not know left the apartment," an officer said in a probable cause affidavit.Osborne let the officers perform a "cursory look throughout" the apartment, according to the affidavit, but police did not find a firearm, "in plain view." Officers left the apartment but were met by a concerned neighbor with security video of the toddler with the gun, the affidavit said.
"The video showed K.O. walking around the upstairs landing of the Beech Grove apartment with a silver and black handgun," the affidavit said. Officers returned to the apartment where Osborne was staying and questioned him again. Officer Rainerio Comia asked K.O., "where he put his 'pew pew,'" after another apartment search seemed to turn up empty, according to the affidavit.Osborne told officers the gun was not his and that it belonged to a cousin "who sometimes left the weapon when he felt mentally unstable," the affidavit said.
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