Police officers saw a child with a gunshot wound to his head when they entered at a home on Truax Lane in South Carolina. Nearby, the boy’s father was holding a gun and threatening to hurt himself.
The officers ordered Keon Myers, 38, to put the gun down, but he refused, according to a police statement. They asked again but he shot himself in the head.
Father and son were rushed to the hospital and both pronounced dead. According to Richland County Coroner Gary Watts each died of a single gunshot wound to the head.
City of Columbia Police Department
