OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) An Ottawa man has been sentenced to more than four years with the state corrections department for accidentally shooting a 4-year-old boy.
A judge will decide Sept. 30 whether Brian K. Bruno, 40, will serve the sentence in prison or on probation.
Bruno was sentenced Monday to four years and four months for aggravated battery and a concurrent one year sentence for child endangerment. Bruno pleaded no contest to the charges last month.
Authorities say the boy was shot in the leg with a handgun at his home. He survived and no one else was injured. Bruno lived with the boy but was not his father.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports Bruno will be required to register as a violent offender.
