A 9-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the hand Saturday with a gun he found in a flower pot in the back of a dusty lot is “doing fine,” his grandmother told the Albany Times Union Monday.
Anthony Chaney Jr. of Albany, N.Y. was taken to the hospital after the incident and has since been released.
The grandmother, Janet Wilburn, said the boy was alone when he shot himself and added that she didn’t know where the gun came from.
“If I did, I’d be out here like Miss Kitty from ‘Gun Smoke,'” she said.
Wilburn said that the gun was gone when police arrived, according to the Times Union. Authorities have not yet released any information as to the location of the weapon.
