February 7, 2025
Deputies responded to a home in Inglis yesterday evening around 8:00 p.m. to a report of a person shot. Arriving deputies discovered a child and adult female suffering from gunshot wounds inside the home. The initial investigation determined two children were playing in a room. One child accessed an unsecured firearm and the gun accidently discharged. The single round struck an adult female and the second child in the same room. Shands Cair airlifted both patients to a local trauma center. The child did not survive the injury and the female is listed in critical condition.
Detectives currently are diligently investigating this incident to determine how this tragic event occurred. The names of those involved in this incident are not being released at this time, as this investigation continues.
Sheriff McCallum asks the Inglis community to please lift this family in prayer as they have a long healing process ahead of them.