US shootings: Man shoots toddler son

A man in the US state of New Jersey shot his 2-year-old son on New Year’s Eve with a handgun as the toddler was sitting inside a car with his mother and grandmother.

Sergio Rivera, 38, of Camden said to Camden County Police Department that he accidentally shot his son.
The boy was taken to Cooper University Hospital to be treated for a gunshot wound to the left arm and left leg.
Rivera was put in county jail and has been charged with possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, aggravated assault, and endangering the welfare of a child.
Chief J. Scott Thomson said: “Regardless of whether the shooting was intentional or accidental, it’s the culture of violence and the illegal possessing of firearms that lies at the heart of our greatest challenge in reducing gun crime.”
The shooting was reported to be the last incident of a violent day in Camden as two men were fatally shot Tuesday afternoon, bringing the city’s 2013 murder toll to 57.
Meanwhile, two teenagers were killed on New Year’s Eve in an armed robbery inside their Barberton, Ohio, home.