Pennsylvania man faces gun charges; son, 12, shot at range
STATE COLLEGE (AP) – A Pennsylvania man banned from owning guns due to a 2004 drug conviction has been jailed on weapons charges after his son was shot at a shooting range.
Thirty-two-year-old Anthony Vankirk II, of State College, has not been charged in his 12-year-old son’s shooting Saturday afternoon at the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Scotia Shooting Range in Halfmoon Township. That incident remains under investigation and authorities haven’t said how badly the boy is injured or how he was shot.
But because of the shooting, state police searched two residences and charged Vankirk with five counts each of possessing firearms while prohibited and carrying firearms without a license.
Police say they seized seven guns including a shotgun, rifle and pistols from Vankirk.
Vankirk remained in the Centre County jail Wednesday, without an attorney listed in court records.