UPDATE: Father arrested after boy shoots younger brother

Anthony Jennings, 38, appeared before judge, Edgeley Myers, to face one count
of 2nd degree child cruelty, and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon charges.

Judge Myers set a $5,800 bond for child cruelty charge and a $4,200 bond for possessing a firearm charge.

Bibb County Sheriff Investigator, Dan Shurley told the judge the remaining children in Jennings’ home have been turned over to the Department of Family and Children Services.

Jennings was arrested Tuesday afternoon. 

According to the sheriff’s office, the incident happened around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday at a home on Grand Avenue. Deputies found a five-year-old boy who lives at the house with a gunshot wound to his right cheek.

Jennings, who’s the child’s father; the boy’s mother; and three brothers, ages three, three, and eight, were home. Investigators say the eight-year-old son accidentally shot his younger sibling after finding the gun in the house.

The five-year-old was taken to a local hospital for treatment. He is out of surgery and listed in good condition.

Investigators are interviewing witnesses. No other information is available at this time.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Bibb Sheriff’s Office at (478) 751-7500 or Crimestoppers at 1-877-68-Crime.