A 3-year-old boy who hid behind a trash can in his own backyard for 12 hours, bleeding from gunshot wounds and just feet away from his dead parents, was hospitalized in serious condition and was expected to survive, police said.Police followed a trail of blood Monday morning to the terrified and gravely wounded boy, who ran and hid after his father reportedly shot his mother and committed suicide.
The child was found after one of his father's co-workers came looking for the man and instructed the boy's 5-year-old brother to call 911. The 5-year-old had run from the Sunday evening gunfire and hid inside the family's house.
He told the dispatcher "his dad killed his mom and shot himself and he can't find his brother," Anaheim Police Sgt. Tim Schmidt said. "He said he could hear his brother screaming and hollering."
It's hard to tell from the scant details if the guy was already a criminal who owned the gun illegally or if he was another one of the legal gun owners who crack up. One thing for sure is, there are an awful lot of guns out there for people like this to pick up in that moment of insanity.
Ramon Maldonado, 48, lived two doors down from the couple and worked with the father about two years ago at an auto repair shop.
"I used to drive with him every morning and he seemed pretty mellow," he said.
Who could have known?
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