MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man facing charges after a shooting in Castalia Heights left a 3-year-old child dead is now out of jail after posting bond.
Vincent Gilliams, 32, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child neglect. Bond had been set at $300,000, but that was reduced to $55,000 during a hearing April 10, according to court records.
The Memphis Police Department responded to the incident April 7 just after 11:30 p.m. in the 1900 block of Frisco Avenue, where officers found a 3-year-old boy with an apparent gunshot wound.
He was taken to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead.
Preliminary information indicate the shooting was accidental, police said.
According to an affidavit, Gilliams told investigators that he and a woman were home with their five children when the incident occurred. He had taken his clothes off and placed them in a loveseat, leaving his handgun in his pants pocket. He was playing a video game when he heard a "pop" behind him and then saw his son fall to the floor with a gunshot wound, the affidavit said.
Investigators found one spent shell casing on the loveseat.