Police: 1 dead after man gives toddler gun to chase victim

Albert Davis is seen in an undated photo provided by the Aiken County, S,C, Detention Center. Davis was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, and charged with murder after he gave a 3-year-old boy a gun and told him to chase the victim around the yard of a South Carolina home. Aiken County Sheriff’s Sgt. Stephen Shunn said witnesses told deputies that 24-year-old Timothy Johnson was shot in the chest Tuesday afternoon after the gun fired while the child was carrying it outside a home in Warrenville. (Aiken County Detention Center via AP)

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