A father in Michigan was charged with intentionally shooting his 2-year-old son in the face with a shotgun.
Prosecutors charged 32-year-old Michael Christopher Glance with multiple felony charges in connection with the April 16 shooting of his son. Glance blew off half of his toddler son’s face during a heated argument with the boy’s mother last Tuesday, Fox News reports.
Jackson County Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Kati Rezmierski said Glance was arguing with the boy’s mother, Nicole McCarthy when he allegedly held a pistol to the boy’s temple and pulled the trigger, but it malfunctioned, mlive.com reports.
McCarthy took the boy to the car and strapped him into his seat when Glance came out of the house with a shotgun and allegedly fired the weapon. He blew off half his son’s face and fired at the mother as she fled the scene with her son in the car, but the shotgun malfunctioned, Rezmierski said.
The boy was taken to Henry Ford Allegiance Health and then transferred to C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor where he remains in critical condition, officials said. Glance was arrested and charged with three counts of assault with intent to murder and felony firearms.
He is currently being held on $10 million bond and will appear in court on May 1 for a preliminary examination, WILX reported.
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