Charleston police said a warrant is out for a Dunbar man after a 5-year-old boy shot himself in the leg. James Brown faces a warrant for child neglect resulting in injury and persons prohibited from possessing firearms, according to the Charleston Police Department. A gun went off Feb. 28 and the boy was taken to Charleston Area Medical Center Women and Children’s Hospital.
Police learned the boy was in a parked vehicle in the 100 block of Kanawha Boulevard East in Charleston and accessed the gun while Brown left him alone in the car. Police say the firearm belonged to Brown. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Charleston Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division at 304-348-6480.