re: 1Year old shot at Costco in New Orleans

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That poor child, my goodness. My heart breaks for these innocent kids, this is ridiculous.

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Yes, innocent kid, but the latest story is his idiot, felon older brother who had a stolen gun laying on the back seat of his car stopped to get gas.

He and another brother, a teen, got out of the car and were talking when they heard a gunshot. They left the kid in the car, not secured in a car seat and the kid found the gun and shot himself in the leg.

Has nothing to do with Costco or a random act of street violence, just an act of massive stupidity by the kids caregivers.

A self inflicted gunshot required 20+ Nopd officer squad cars on scene?

I just passed a stop on St Bernard with 10 units. Resources are much too thin for officers to respond like this.

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A self inflicted gunshot required 20+ Nopd officer squad cars on scene?

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Are you seriously complaining? Let’s just be happy NOPD can still sometimes show up like this. There is no telling what the kind of call the 911 dispatch got and radioed out regarding a 1 year old being shot, so it was probably a all hands on deck kind of scenario at first

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Zyaire Cornelius, 18, was booked with second-degree cruelty to juveniles and illegally possessing a stolen firearm in connection to a 1-year-old shot Tuesday (July 12) at the Costco New Orleans fuel station.

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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - An 18-year-old man was arrested late Tuesday night (July 12) in connection with a shooting that critically injured his 2-year-old brother hours earlier at the Costco New Orleans gas station.

Zyaire Cornelius was booked with second-degree cruelty to juveniles and with illegally possessing a stolen firearm, a gun New Orleans police said was recovered after the toddler was shot around 3:50 p.m.

Cornelius was booked into the Orleans Justice Center jail at 11:21 p.m., records show, and is expected to make his first court appearance for a bond setting on Wednesday afternoon. The NOPD had detained at least two people for questioning, but had said Tuesday night that no arrests had been made.

The 2-year-old boy, initially described by police as a 1-year-old victim, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition. The child was described as suffering from “a large amount of blood loss” from a gunshot wound to the leg, according to court documents.

An NOPD detective’s sworn affidavit says the child’s wound was self-inflicted.

“The gross negligence of Mr. Cornelius leaving the firearm in the rear seat with the 2-year-old victim resulted in the 2-year-old victim shooting himself in the leg,” NOPD investigator Jesse Roger wrote.

After a search warrant was obtained for the dark gray Dodge Challenger that Cornelius pulled into the gas station with, police said they recovered “an AR-15 pistol wedged in between the driver seat and the center console.” They also said they found a Glock 19 firearm with an extended magazine on the rear passenger floorboard.

That weapon, which police say fired the 9mm bullet that wounded the boy, was identified by its serial number as a gun reported stolen out of St. Tammany Parish in 2020.

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Illegal, stolen gun used