Ring doorbell camera captures horrifying sound of two-year-old shooting himself with parents' flare gun

The sound of a two-year-old boy successful Florida shooting himself pinch his parents' flare weapon was caught successful haunting ringing doorbell footage.

The toddler, named only arsenic Justin, was airlifted to nan infirmary aft nan flare weapon burnt his digit and ricocheted disconnected his thorax successful West Little River successful Miami-Dade connected Thursday afternoon, NBC Miami reported.

He remains critically-ill.  

A neighbor's ringing doorbell camera captured a large and speedy bang successful nan adjacent region - seemingly signaling nan infinitesimal nan kid accidently group nan weapon off.

Miami-Dade constabulary were called to a location connected Northwest 103 Street and Northwest 32 Place astatine astir 12.30pm wherever Raul Pozo, Justin's grandfather, was carrying him, CBS News Miami reported.

The small boy sewage a clasp of a flare weapon while successful nan backyard pinch his begetter who was cleaning their vessel successful mentation for a sportfishing travel nan pursuing day. 

Possibly mistaking nan vulnerable instrumentality arsenic a toy, Justin grabbed nan weapon retired of nan vessel correct earlier it went off. 

Pozo noted really it was a 'terrible accident' but Justin was capable to stay calm - not moreover shedding a tear during nan incident. 

Justin was airlifted to nan infirmary successful captious condition, but is expected to beryllium recovering quickly and whitethorn beryllium returning location soon. 

Flare guns are a VDS instrumentality - a ocular distress awesome - which is an basal instrumentality to person while retired connected nan h2o successful nan arena of an emergency.

The handgun-looking portion of instrumentality discharges flares, blanks and fume to nutrient a distress awesome successful times of need.

The flares that are ejected from nan weapon tie attraction to nan vessel - indicating that thief is needed and giving rescue vessels a measurement to find you.

In Florida, VDS devices are required connected each boats erstwhile sailing done coastal waters, including nan Atlantic Ocean and nan Gulf of Mexico. 

These devices tin see handheld flares, aerial flares aliases an physics signaling device.

Despite being a basal instrumentality for boating, they tin airs arsenic a threat if not handled properly.

It is not instantly clear what type of activity was being done connected nan vessel aliases if Justin was being supervised astatine nan clip of nan accident, NBC6 reported.

But Miami-Dade constabulary person not revenge immoderate benignant of charges pursuing nan horrifying incident.

Under Florida law, firearms must beryllium kept successful a locked container aliases instrumentality that is secured pinch a trigger lock.

But because flare guns are not considered firearms successful nan state, nan aforesaid rules of retention don't use - making this lawsuit conscionable a scary accident.

Justin was injured conscionable a period aft a 5-year-old boy accidently fired a flare weapon successful his look while wrong nan car successful Wichita, Kansas, KSN News reported.

While his mother stepped extracurricular of nan car to talk to his grandmother, he fired nan gun, hitting his forehead and past exited nan car which caught occurrence aft nan bang.

He was taken to nan infirmary and suffered a caput wounded arsenic good arsenic burns, but was besides expected to make a afloat recovery.