A judge decided Thursday to hold a 9-year-old boy at $50,000 bail for accidentally shooting his classmate in school, CBS News reported.
The boy wept while he sat in front of the judge in his orange jumpsuit with Jason Cochran, his father, and Patrick Cochran, his uncle and legal guardian, sat near him and attempted to comfort him, the Washington Post reported.
The judge will decide sometime later whether to press charges of illegal gun possession and third-degree assault after determining whether the boy knew what he was doing was wrong and whether anyone else was to blame for the incident, the Daily Mail reported.
Both of the boy's parents have criminal records, the Washington Post reported.
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