Overview
- Police say a 3-year-old shot himself in the hand with a semi-automatic handgun he found inside a unit at The Cove Apartments in Warren.
- The child was brought by his 24-year-old mother to Henry Ford Warren Hospital and is in stable condition with serious injuries but expected to survive.
- Officers obtained a search warrant, recovered the firearm, and documented evidence consistent with an accidental discharge.
- Findings will be forwarded to the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office to determine possible charges, including under the 2023 safe-storage statute.
- Police leaders called the incident preventable and urged secure storage; Warren officers provide free gun locks to residents.