ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The St. Cloud Police Department says a 5-year-child died from a gunshot wound on Friday.
According to a news release, officers responded shortly after 3 p.m. to St. Cloud Hospital on a report of a 5-year-old child "who was deceased from a gunshot wound which he sustained at a different location."
Police say they later learned it happened at a home in the 800 block of 10th Avenue North in St. Cloud, and that the fatal shooting appears to be accidental.
Officers arrested a 35-year-old man from Chicago on potential charges of a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a stolen firearm, and negligent storage of a firearm, according to the news release.
The man is being held at the Stearns County Jail.
St. Cloud Police and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are investigating the case.
