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5-Year-Old Reportedly Shot in the Arm by Accident — But Was it by Robbers, His Father, or His Brother?

Feb. 23, 2013 4:54pm Erica Ritz

Bronx Father Denny Pantoja Arrested After 5 Year Old Son Reportedly Shoots Himself While Playing With a Gun

(Photo: FOX5)

A five-year old boy is in serious but stable condition after being shot in the arm in the Bronx neighborhood of New York on Friday. What was not clear in the immediate aftermath, though, was how it all happened.

In a dizzying tale, the culprit went from robbers, to the boy’s father, to the boy’s 11-year-old brother, before police announced that the child appeared to have accidentally shot himself.

33-year-old Denny Pantoja originally claimed his son was shot in a robbery at a nearby check-cashing firm, according to WABC, before saying that he accidentally shot him at their home. Reports soon shifted the blame to the boy’s 11-year-old brother, before authorities said that the young child appeared to have accidentally shot himself while playing with the firearm.

Pantoja says he grabbed the child and ran outside for help after his son walked in to his bedroom, likely crying, saying that he’d been shot. He soon got in his car and attempted to rush the boy to the hospital but was reportedly pulled over for speeding. Seeing the bleeding child, police immediately called an ambulance.

Though Pantoja doesn’t appear to have pulled the trigger, he is still being charged with criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the New York Post.

Neighbors describe the man as a good father, saying “he’s always with his children” and has a tendency to spoil them.

One neighbor defended Pantoja’s decision to have a weapon in the house for FOX5: “As any man of a family would have [a gun], it’s a safety…Anything happen in his family, he would take the bid, that’s family.”

The type of gun has not been identified, but police say they found it in Pantoja’s car.

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Leveraction3030
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 10:07pm
Boy this could be big trouble in NYC & NY. If he had a two liter soda in the house on top of this he could get life.

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Maxim Crux
Posted on February 24, 2013 at 12:16am
They will throw him in prison after they let out a couple child molesters and rapist to make room for him. It is torture enough to have your own child suffer for personal negligence.

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- myptofvu
  Posted on February 24, 2013 at 12:08pm
  Hope the kids like their new State assigned Foster Parents. WIth luck the Father will get supervised visitation once every blue moon. Best part of all they will make a felon out of him so he will no longer be able to have a firearm……………….sorry for the delay the Soviet National Anthem was playing and I had to stand at attention.
  
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skyguy51
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 11:32pm
Typical New York. Charge the taxpayer, make a new criminal. Surprised they haven’t charged dad for having a salt shaker and transfats in the house too.

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- Ditto Head
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 11:53pm
  If the child was shot by himself or his brother with the father’s irresponsibly stored and possibly illegally possessed firearm, then the father should be charged with felony child endangerment. This has absolutely nothing to do with the second amendment. This is about common sense, or lack thereof.
  
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RamonPreston
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 8:37pm
Wait while I go listen to “The Ballad of Irving”. Seems to fit the situation.

“..and butterfingers Irving gunned himself down.”

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- TRK
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 8:49pm
  The 142nd fastest gun in the west.
  
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ares338
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 7:32pm
A Mexican with a gun is like a baby with a razorblade…..sooner or later someone is going to get hurt.

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- SamIamTwo
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 8:31pm
  How did you get Mexican out of that…closer to Spaniard. But that is a fraking guess.
  
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The_Fifth_Column
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 7:03pm
So exactly what is criminal possession of a weapon in New York? I think that the Second Amendment says that you have the right to bare arms. Where exactly does it say, except in New York? I am pretty sure that it pertains to everywhere in the United States. Did New York leave the Union, and didn’t tell the rest of us?

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- RamonPreston
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 8:40pm
  No, we (Upstate) tried to secede from downstate but they wouldn’t let us.Somebody has to support them.
  
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fande3rls
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:58pm
I will never Visit NY or NY state as long as the TYRANT HIER Bloomberg and HIER CUOMO are in office , or as long as the gvernments there disrespects the Constitution

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ThePostman
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:34pm
I don’t understand, guns are all but banned in NYC. This isn’t even possible! I suspect this is a lie. There was no one shot. I mean, look at Chicago, guns are banned there and no one has been shot since, wait, say what? Nevermind!

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- The_Fifth_Column
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 7:14pm
  Only the elite and cops can have firearms in NY. The rest of you can call 911. There lives are much more valuable than yours. I’m sure Bloomberg will be there with gun’s a blazin’, protecting you and your family. Just don’t have a salt shaker, or cigarette on the property. Taboo!
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:48pm
That law is unconstitutional just like every other gun law passed since the second amendment was written. It was legal at one time in this country to own slaves as well and that was dealt with just like all these BS gun laws will be.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:59pm
  Sorry this post was for the article about the vet getting screwed,my rage compelled me to post here.
  
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13th Imam
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:36pm
Next we will hear that a pistol brandishing 5 year old confronted a NYC swat team, backed by a phalanx of NY Staties riot police, flanked by an Kennedy Airport armored homeland security division, covered by a squadron of The Obama Unit drones armed with hellfire rockets. They all let loose with everything they had when they saw he had a Vote Mitt T-Shirt on. As a result he had a flesh wound in one of his arms. They all subdued him and will charge him as a felon. Repeat after me “I love NY,,,, I love NY”

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battles
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:33pm
When I was young and growing up, if a child was accidentally shot, it was considered an unfortunate family event. No matter what the outcome, life went on afterwards. Today if a child is accidentally shot, the police come out, arrest the father and sometimes mother, try them for a crime, throw them in jail, cause them to lose their jobs, break up the family, cause them to lose their home and belongings, sometimes remove their other children from the family permanently, all to protect and for the sake of the family. What a wonderful thing government is!

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- catty
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 8:39pm
  Those drama queen cops. Who cares if a 5 year old gets shot? Move on, get over it.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:29pm
Been to NYC 3 times, long ago…NEVER Going back!!…TOO MANY GUNS!!!

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wilbstal
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:15pm
NY dont mind violating the 2nd amenement rights all the time NY is one of the most Commnuinst states in USA History with Cuomo and Bllomberg and the Unionized cops and troopers all working for Satan

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- cmsdrizzt
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:30pm
  100% accurate from a former New Yorker!
  
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wilbstal
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:12pm
NY cops cant be trusted to tell the truth they work for Cuomo and Bloomberg figure this out folks all are corrupt we will never know the truth cops cover and lie to make them look good

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- cmsdrizzt
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:32pm
  You are 100% correct. And this actually applies to other NY state areas, not just the city. I saw it first hand in 4 different police dept in Syracuse NY and the State Troopers.
  
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- gauge
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:38pm
  Syracuse and Dewitt Police are the worst!
  
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maggiepie
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:05pm
Let’s see. The Bronx (probably south Bronx). The gun is probably illegal.

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- spirited
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:57pm
  “Though Pantoja doesn’t appear to have pulled the trigger, he is still being charged with criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child…” -The Blaze
  
  ~>”criminal posession” ;^)
  
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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on February 23, 2013 at 6:43pm
  There is no such thing as criminal possession.
  
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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 5:00pm
He had a gun in New York? aren’t those illegal?

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OngoingFreedom
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 4:58pm
Ya gotta be responsible with your guns.

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