Prosecutors in Wisconsin have charged 18-year-old Christian Koleske in the shooting of his 3-year-old sister.
Reports say the gun is still missing.
Koleske is facing one count of first-degree reckless injury, use of a dangerous weapon repeater, possession of a firearm by adjudicated delinquent, neglecting a child, and solicitation of harboring or aiding a felon following the incident in the family’s Kenosha home on 29th Avenue and 51st Street on May 12.
According to the complaint, police were called to the home at 10:57 a.m. by the children’s grandmother. She stated that her grandson called her daughter, her daughter called her, and she was calling 911 to report the shooting.
Police said when they arrived at the home, no one answered the front door and it was locked.
The responding officer said Koleske looked out the window and was instructed to open the door, but he didn’t.
The officer entered the home through a back door, according to the complaint, and found the girl in a bedroom.
Court documents said she was “lying on the bed, crying, propped up on a pillow with a bath towel draped over her left leg.”
The officer said the gunshot was to the child’s upper thigh and appeared to be a through-and-through. He applied a tourniquet and took her to a waiting ambulance.
According to the complaint, Koleske denied there was any gun and told the officer the girl did not get shot in the house, but that they heard the gunshot from outside.
But the officer said he found a fired cartridge and a fired projectile on the floor in close proximity.
Police also said a 19-year-old woman in the home told them Koleske and the girl went into Koleske’s bedroom and she heard a gunshot.
She said while she helped the girl, she heard Koleske call someone to come and get the gun.
Court documents show Koleske later agreed that the incident was an “accident” and that he did not mean to shoot the 3-year-old.
He told police he tried to take care of her by giving her Tylenol and using popsicles to help with the pain.
The commissioner issued Koleske a $25,000 cash bond.
In a separate release, Police Chief Patrick Patton said, “the gun in this incident mysteriously disappeared long before police were notified of the shooting.
If anyone knows where the gun is, you are asked to call the Kenosha Police Department Detective Bureau at 262-605-5203 or the Kenosha Area Crime Stoppers at 262-656-7333.”
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