Grovetown Child Critical With Gunshot Wound to the Head
A four-year-old Grovetown girl is in critical condition after being shot in the head Monday evening at an apartment in the 5000 block of Sterlington Drive.
Grovetown Police Chief Jamey Kitchens says one of the department’s officers was flagged down by the occupants of a vehicle on Horizon South Parkway near Gateway Boulevard just before 6 p.m. He said two adults, including the child’s father, were trying to transport the girl to the hospital. Several others were reportedly in the home at the time of the shooting.
In the meantime, officers went to the scene of the shooting and learned that the girl’s father, 24-year-old Davion Daniels, admitted he had placed a loaded 9mm Glock handgun on the floor of the home while he left to take a phone call. Daniels told investigators he heard a gunshot a short time later and ran upstairs where he found his daughter with a gunshot wound to the head.
Daniels has since been charged with Cruelty to Children in the Second Degree and Possession of a Machine Gun. Kitchens said, “The machine gun charge is due to the discovery of the firearm having been illegally modified to a fully automatic configuration.”
Daniels was taken into custody and is being held at the Columbia County Detention Center. Authorities say additional charges are pending.
