MADISON HEIGHTS (WWJ) — One person is in custody after a 9-year-old Madison Heights boy shot himself in the hand with an unsecured gun Friday afternoon.
Madison Heights police were called to Corewell Health/Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital around 1:20 p.m. on Aug. 23 regarding a 9-year-old shooting victim who had been brought in.
Preliminary investigations found the boy accidentally shot himself in the left hand with an unsecured gun handgun he found at a home on Palmer Street, near 12 Mile and John R, police officials said.
It was not immediately clear how the boy got ahold of the gun…