A Pottstown man has been charged after, officials said, his two-year-old son shot himself in the chest with a handgun that the father had left on a bed in their home.
According to the offices of Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele and Pottstown Police Chief Mick Markovich, Luis Marin, 34, of Pottstown, has been apprehended on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and recklessly endangering another person related to leaving a loaded firearm unsecured on his bed, which resulted in his two-year-old son obtaining the firearm and shooting himself.
The incident, law enforcement officials said, happened on May 15, 2024, just before 5 p.m., when police were called to a hospital in Pottstown after a toddler showed up there with a gun shot wound…