Misdemeanor charges have been filed against a mother after a gun in her child’s backpack went off at Walt Disney Magnet School, wounding a 7-year-old boy Tuesday morning.
The gun accidentally discharged while in the student’s backpack in a classroom around 10 a.m., Chicago police said. The bullet struck the ground, ricocheted and grazed the abdomen of a classmate.
The wounded boy was taken to Lurie’s Children’s Hospital in good condition, officials said.
The child’s mother, Tatanina Kelly, 28, was charged with three misdemeanor counts of causing a child to be endangered, police said. She was expected to appear in bond court Wednesday.
Neither police nor school officials said how the gun got into the backpack.
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