An 18-month-old Coffee County boy is recovering after being struck by a bullet fired by his 3-year-old brother at a home in Hillsboro.
Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves said Wednesday that investigators were interviewing family members at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where the child is being treated.
He has been “alert and awake” throughout the ordeal and is expected to recover, the sheriff said.
Graves said officials are trying to determine how the 3-year-old got hold of the .25-caliber pistol that discharged, firing a bullet that struck his little brother in the neck/head area on Tuesday.
The incident happened on A Street in Hillsboro.