AURORA | Police said a 3-year-old Aurora boy was shot and critically injured Monday morning in his home while in a “back room” with his father and other children.
An urgent care center called police dispatchers at about 10:30 a.m. to report that a woman had brought her toddler son in suffering a gunshot wound.
“The child was transported to a children’s hospital where he remains with life-threatening injuries,” Aurora police spokesperson Agent Matt Longshore said in a statement.
Investigators said the 3-year-old boy was in a “back room” at an apartment on the 14800 block of East Centerpoint Drive when the mother heard what sounded like gunfire and discovered the boy had been injured.
“She quickly drove him to the urgent care,” Longshore said. “The father left the scene with another child of his.”
The father, who was not identified, was contacted by police in Colorado Springs and arrested there on unspecified outstanding warrants, Aurora police said.
” The child that he left the scene with was located and is safe,” Longshore said. “The dad is not considered a suspect at this time, only a person of interest, and investigators will coordinate a time to interview him.”
The child’s grandmother came to the house after the shooting to watch a third child inside the home, and while there suffered a medical emergency and was taken to a hospital, accompanied by the other child.
“In total, there were two adults and three children in the apartment at the time of the shooting,” Longshore said.
As of 5 p.m. Monday, there was no update on the injured boy’s condition.
Please, can we have MORE GUNS, apparently we don’t have enough shootings here in Aurora..and the country….so can we get a law that says everyone has to have a loaded gun on themselves at all times….(could take care of a big problem)