Man Is Arrested On Live TV After Video Shows His Toddler Playing With Gun

Officials said that after neighbors complained that a man's infant kid was wandering an apartment hallway with a loaded revolver, Indiana police, whose work was being shown live on cable TV, arrested the man.

The incident was captured on camera as Beech Grove police responded to a complaint about a boy who was allegedly walking alone while carrying a firearm on Saturday night's "On Patrol: Live" episode of Reelz.

The boy's father, Shane Osborne, 45, who claimed there was no gun in his flat, was first spoken to by police after a neighbor alerted them, according to a "Live" video.

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Four responding police officers were ready to leave the building when another neighbor approached them and revealed a video of a boy wearing diapers and carrying a gun that was captured on her doorbell camera, as seen on "Live."

"That's absolutely tough to see," said “Live” analyst Sean "Sticks" Larkin, a retired Tulsa, Oklahoma, police sergeant. "You could see the kid was clearly pulling the trigger. Had it been chambered, loaded, it could have been a horrific, horrific situation."

According to the Reelz show, the officers returned to Osborne's apartment right away and ultimately found a 9 mm Smith & Wesson concealed under a closed roll-top desk.

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A Richland County, South Carolina, sheriff's deputy and additional "Live" analyst, Curtis Wilson, raised doubts about the claim that the kid accidentally placed the gun in the desk.

“The way that it was placed in this dresser, the way it was actually strategically placed in there and the top down, it’s unlikely that a little kid was able to do that," he said.

According to court records, Osborne was arrested on suspicion of felony providing a firearm to a kid and neglect of a dependent. The Marion County Prosecutor's Office has scheduled his initial court appearance for Thursday afternoon.

Osborne had previously admitted to cameras that as an ex-convict, he is not allowed to keep any guns.

According to a spokesman of the state Corrections Department, Osborne was sentenced to 13 months in jail for theft and forgery cases that occurred in 2012 and 2013, respectively.

Whether Osborne had retained or was given a legal representative was unclear as of Tuesday. His cell phone buzzed, but the call went to voicemail.

A little over a week had passed since a 6-year-old Virginia child shot and killed his first-grade teacher.

According to Larkin, the Indiana incident may have easily been tragic.

"There's a point that he's holding it up, and it's literally, it almost looks like it's pointing up toward his own face," he said.

Larkin added: "We hear these types of stories where kids come across, find these firearms, these horrific results that do happen sometimes. But seeing it on video is definitely very different."