King is charged with two counts of child reckless endangerment, one count of aggravated child endangerment and one count of felony possession of a firearm, according to Macon County Sheriff Mark Gammons.
Bond is set at $75,000 with a court date scheduled Feb. 3.
Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched Monday night to a call on Carthage Road, just outside the Red Boiling Springs city limits. They responded to reports of a gunshot.
“Upon their arrival they found a 10 year old boy that had a gunshot wound,” Gammons said. “There were two other children in the home.”
An ambulance rushed the boy to the Nestle Water facility, where a helicopter landed about 10:50 p.m. to transport him to Vanderbilt Hospital.
Meanwhile, back at the boy’s home, sheriff’s deputies were holding his father in the back of a cruiser. Inside, deputies were searching for a gun, which Kevin King apparently hid before they arrived.
Deputies found bullet holes in the wall where a gun had been discharged before, Gammons said.
The boy's mother was at work when the shooting occurred.
More details to follow online and in next Thursday’s edition of the Times.
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