Las Vegas Man Arrested after His Son Shoots Himself to Death
Alex Kopystenski has been charged with one count of felony child endangerment in Las Vegas this week after his five-year-old son Giovanni accidentally shot himself in the head with Kopystenski’s gun.
On Monday, father and son (and a friend of the father’s) drove to a Walgreens to fill a prescription. While they were at the drive-thru window, Giovanni took his father's gun, which was allegedly on the front seat's center console, and pulled the trigger. Kopystenski and his friend rushed Giovanni to Spring Valley Hospital, where he died early Tuesday morning.
Kopystenski was booked at Clark County Detention Center, where he was released on $3,000 bail. Child endangerment in Las Vegas can be a category B felony, carrying two to twenty years in state prison.
