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Father Indicted For Child's Death

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published September 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM EDT

A Knox County Grand Jury has indicted a Mount Vernon man who's son shot and killed himself with an unsecured .45 caliber handgun.25-year-old Joshua Heagren faces charges of child endangering and negligent homicide in the May death of his 3-year-old son Lucas. Prosecutors say the boy found his dad's loaded gun laying on top of a television. Heagren is due to appear in court next week.  
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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