4YO Boy Shoots Himself With Unsecured Gun In Home Filled With Snakes & A Crocodile

[Sugar Cookie]

The parents of a 4-year-old boy who found a gun at a Blount County home and accidentally shot himself were arrested on Monday.

Cassandra Lynn Lutz, 39, and Alexander Andrew Corrie, 26, are charged with first-degree assault.

The pair also faces multiple charges of cruelty to animals and failure to bury livestock after authorities found roughly 30 snakes – six of them dead – and a crocodile inside the Oneonta home.

Additionally, they are charged with chemical endangerment of two children in connection with the discovery of marijuana and pipes with residue.

The investigation began when Blount County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched Friday morning to UAB St. Vincent’s Blount where they learned the child was critically injured with gunshot wounds to the right knee and right arm.

He had been driven there by private vehicle and was then airlifted to Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham.

The shooting happened at the family’s home in the Sugarland Lake community.

A search turned up drugs and multiple unsecured guns inside the home, as well as the animals.

On the assault charge, warrants state Lutz and Corrie caused a grave risk of death to another person by leaving a firearm unsecured.

The cruelty to animal charges alleged the snakes were subjected to cruel treatment by being kept in unsanitary conditions, causing six of them to die. Some of the living snakes were being held in containers with dead and decomposing snakes.

Blount County District Attorney Pamela Casey said the Department of Human Resources were called to the scene and removed other children from the home.

Fish and game officers also responded because of the crocodile and snakes.

Parents charged after 4-year-old Blount County boy shot himself in house with crocodile, snakes

Cassandra Lynn Lutz, 39, and Alexander Andrew Corrie, 26, face multiple charges.

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[thuumpr]

Imagine - 'the discovery of marijuana and pipes with residue' while living in 'Blunt County'.

 

[Aedia]

Okay, but why does his head look 3x too small?? I know it must be the collar and the comparison to the woman's mugshot, but it is hilarious.
That poor kid! I can only imagine the ride to the hospital with these two.

Wonder what kind of snakes they had? Factoring in that they obviously weren't caring for them properly, had a habit of not storing dangerous things properly and had a small child...well, this could have ended badly depending on what kind they were, even if they were just poisonous and small.

And I didn't even factor in the croc! Holy Christ, this could have ended even worse.

 

[AliCatClick]

Seems suspish that a 4 year old was able to shoot both his left leg and arm by himself. That means he held the gun with just his right hand and shot himself through both somehow? Adding the fact that these dipshits didn't even call an ambulance, instead opting to drive him there themselves, prolonging his suffering... I'm not really buying that the preschooler shot himself.

 

[cubby]

. I'm not really buying that the preschooler shot himself

I agree, I have small hands for an adult and between that and the weight, I can't hardly hold up a handgun and I can't believe that a 4 year old managed it and shot himself in two places. I hope this child can talk and let the investigators know who actually shot him.

 

[runninfawn]

i wonder if that child is a lefty as both right arm and right knee were involved.. i am trying to figure out what possition he was in to be able to shoot himself in the arm and right knee and i sure hope that this child can talk about what happened before he is drilled on a story to tell ....