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An Indiana court docket has entered not responsible pleas for the person who prosecutors say is the daddy of the baby captured on video waving a loaded handgun on the touchdown at an condominium advanced, in line with court docket data.
Shane Osborne, 45, was charged this week with two fees of neglect of a dependent and harmful management of a firearm after the toddler was seen waving a pistol on video aired by the Reelz collection “On Patrol: Live,” throughout the TV present’s stay broadcast Saturday.
During a search of the house, police discovered a 9mm gun with 15 rounds in its journal, however no rounds within the gun’s chamber.
Act Daily News has realized he will probably be assigned a public defender and has reached out to that workplace for remark.
Police in Beech Grove, about 6 miles southeast of Indianapolis, had been responding Saturday to the report of an armed individual.
Osborne “explained that he had been ill all day and did not know (the toddler had) left the apartment,” an officer stated in a possible trigger affidavit.
The toddler is recognized within the affidavit as “K.O.”
Osborne let the officers carry out a “cursory look throughout” the condominium, in line with the affidavit, however police didn’t discover a gun, “in plain view.” Officers left the condominium however had been met by a involved neighbor with safety video of the toddler with the gun, the affidavit stated.
“The video showed K.O. walking around the upstairs landing of the apartment with a silver and black handgun,” the affidavit stated. Officers returned to the condominium the place Osborne was staying and questioned him once more.
Osborne informed police he didn’t have a gun, “but indicated that a relative may have left one somewhere.”
Officer Rainerio Comia requested Okay.O., “where he put his ‘pew pew,’” after one other condominium search appeared to show up empty, in line with the affidavit.
That’s when Okay.O. led officers to a roll-top desk the place officers discovered a Smith & Wesson SD9VE, the affidavit stated.
Osborne informed officers the gun was not his and that it belonged to a cousin “who sometimes left the weapon (there) when he felt mentally unstable,” the affidavit stated.
“He did not know the weapon was in the apartment at this time, nor that K.O. knew where it was,” the affidavit stated. “He believed K.O. was inside the apartment, playing and watching television. However, he stated that he must have been very asleep, because he did not notice K.O. leave the apartment.”
The boy was left in Osborne’s care as a result of his main caregiver was sicker than he was, the affidavit stated.
As of Thursday evening, Osborne had not posted bail, which was set at $60,000 (10% to safe his launch) and $500 money, in line with the Marion County clerk’s workplace and court docket data.
Osborne has not less than seven prior convictions in Indiana, together with a felony, and was dealing with one other felony cost on the time of Saturday’s incident, in line with prosecutors and court docket data.
Osborne additionally signed a non-contact order on Thursday, in line with public data. A overview of the state’s request exhibits he’s not allowed to keep up a correspondence with the kid and different people.
His subsequent listening to is scheduled for March 1, court docket data present.