Toddler is stable after Wednesday shooting
By Steve Herring
Published in News on December 30, 2014 1:46 PM
MOUNT OLIVE -- The condition of a 2-year-old boy who was struck by a bullet on Christmas Eve has been upgraded from critical to fair and stable.
The child was sitting in his car seat in the back seat of his parents' car when he was hit by a bullet from a high-powered rifle, Duplin County Sheriff Blake Wallace said today.
A 16-year-old, Tyler Chase Sanderson, has been charged in the shooting, which happened following an argument at a home on Alum Springs Road between Mount Olive and Albertson in Duplin County.
Sanderson is in the Duplin County Jail under a $1.75 million bond on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and shooting into an occupied vehicle.
The investigation is ongoing and additional charges could be filed. As such, Wallace said he is limited on what information he can release.
Wallace said that the parents and the child had gone to the Alum Springs Road home on Christmas Eve, where they got into an argument with Sanderson.
The parents got into their car to leave when Sanderson came out of the house and shot into the car.
No one else was injured.
The shooting happened shortly after 7 p.m., Wallace said.
Wallace said the parents and the people at the house were not related.
Also, he said he could not yet comment on what sparked the argument.