A Wisconsin man has been arrested and charged after an 8-year-old boy died of a gunshot wound earlier this week, officials say.
52-year-old Steven Merkel has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide after the alleged accidental shooting of 8-year-old Michael Meagher, Merkel's stepson. The Lake Geneva resident provided his account of events to a detective with the Walworth County Sheriff's Office in which he admitted that "he did something stupid, and it wasn't the (Meagher's) fault that the defendant shot him," says the criminal complaint obtained by Fox 6.
