Toddler Reportedly Shoots Himself

RUSK � Cherokee County Sheriff�s officials say a 2-year-old boy shot himself over the weekend at a house just east of Highway 84 and County Road 1201. Deputies say the boy�s mother was in the living room during the time of the incident. Authorities say the boy appears to have used a stool to get the gun case on a counter when he opened the case and shot himself once in the upper right chest, just below the collarbone. The gun is said to have been a small caliber semi-automatic with a round-chambered and fully-loaded magazine. The child is recovering from surgery now, and is listed in critical condition at Dallas Children�s Hospital.