While the photo here may exaggerate a tad, I'm sure the chaos and terror which ensued Friday afternoon to three children at home must have seemed like destruction and noise on this scale.Two young boys were at home in their Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago on Friday afternoon. Their older sister was preparing a meal, and a parolee named Anthony Smith 24 was in the home.When the older sister heated the oven she had no reason to expect surprises. Suddenly she heard loud noises coming from the oven, followed by screams of her bleeding 4-year old brother who was shot in a leg. A 12 year-old boy was struck in the forehead by debris caused by the gunshots from the gun Smith wasn't allowed to have legally, and had decided to hide in the oven. He apparently forgot to share that information with the residents of the home, or perhaps saw no reason for concern when gun powder is heated to high temperatures. The younger boy is in stable condition in Corner Childrens Hospital, the 12 -year old was treated and released. Smith was recently paroled Feb. 22 from the Downstate Vienna prison, where he had been serving a one-year sentence on a drug conviction. His relationship to the boys - if any, was not disclosed.
Smith obviously hasn't read Hints from Heloise for storing your gun. An oven is an absolute no no. The genius who allegedly hid the gun was charged early Saturday with two counts of endangering the life of a child and one count of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, police said.
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