{"id":7539,"date":"2022-08-14T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/connecticut-dad-shoots-teen-son-while-instructing-on-guns\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T11:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:41:28","slug":"connecticut-dad-shoots-teen-son-while-instructing-on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=7539","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut dad shoots teen son while instructing on guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Connecticut teenager was accidentally shot by his father Friday afternoon while the older man was telling him about guns, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Police said the 17-year-old, whose name along with his father’s was not released, he suffered a gunshot wound<\/a> on the shoulder just after 3 p.m. Friday in Meriden, about 22 miles southwest of Hartford, the Hartford Courant reports.<\/p>\n

“The father planned to familiarize his son with firearms to begin firearms training at a local gun range in the near future,” Meriden police said in a statement at the time of the incident<\/p>\n

Authorities said the teenager was taken to a hospital before being taken to a trauma center, but did not provide additional information about his condition.<\/p>\n

An investigation is reportedly ongoing.<\/p>\n

The Daily News has reached out to the City of Meriden for additional information.<\/p>\n

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A Connecticut teenager was accidentally shot by his father Friday afternoon while the older man was telling him about guns, authorities said. Police said the 17-year-old, whose name along with his father’s was not released, he suffered a gunshot wound on the shoulder just after 3 p.m. Friday in Meriden, about 22 miles southwest of Hartford, the Hartford Courant reports. “The father planned to familiarize his son with firearms to begin firearms training at a local gun range in the near future,” Meriden police said in a statement at the time of the incident Authorities said the teenager was taken… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}