Toddler injured in handgun accident

A three-year-old boy in Green River accidentally shot himself in the hand after discovering a loaded handgun Monday morning.

According to a release from the Green River Police Department, emergency personnel responded to an undisclosed address on East Teton Boulevard at about 10:16 a.m. Monday. The boy, whose name was not released by the department, was playing in a bedroom with another child when he discovered a .380 caliber handgun that was thought to have been unloaded. The release states the bullet passed through the child’s hand, but did not injure anyone else at the residence. There were...