A Wicomico County man has been charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of his 4-year-old son, authorities said.
Jamal A. Woolford Sr., 29, of Hebron, was arrested late Tuesday after being indicted by a grand jury in the shooting earlier this month, Maryland State Police said. Woolford also was charged with reckless endangerment, among other charges, according to police.
Police said the boy accidentally shot himself and wounded his mother while she was asleep on March 5. The boy was taken to a hospital in Salisbury, where he was later pronounced dead.
Investigators determined that the boy got the gun in the bedroom where his father kept it, authorities said.
Woolford is being held in the Wicomico County Detention Center without bond.