OVERTON, Texas — An East Texas father has been arrested in connection with an accidental shooting that injured his 2-year-old daughter.
Devan Page, 23, of Overton, was arrested and charged with injury to a child on Nov. 26 in connection with the Nov. 20 shooting of the child at a home on County Road 29 in the Overton area of Smith County. He was booked into the Caddo Parish Jail in Louisiana, where he remains jailed.
Recently, Sheriff Larry Smith said the 2-year-old is currently OK.
According to an arrest affidavit, the girl was shot in the chest. Page initially claimed that the girl stacked boxes to get to his .22 caliber pistol that was stored in a high place in a storage room. He claimed that he was preparing a bottle for his other child in the kitchen and ran to the room to find the 2-year-old holding the gun.
But in the later interview, Page revealed that he lied to the other deputy. He said he wears the pistol in the back part of his pants and the firearm must've fallen out. Page said he heard a gunshot and that's when he saw the child holding the gun with a gunshot wound to the chest, the affidavit read.
Smith said more charges are pending at this time.
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