Nathan Jackson has never met his 4-year-old son, Navaun, but he is hoping for the chance this week as the toddler fights death from a gunshot wound to the head.
Navaun Jackson, 4, accidentally shot himself in the head in Oakland after finding a loaded gun in his house. He is on life support at Children's Hospital in Oakland.
The gun was owned by his mother’s boyfriend, Terrence Leavell Wilson. Wilson has been arrested and charged with three felonies for child abuse, possession of a gun by a felon and first degree criminal firearm storage, according to court documents. Wilson told police he had illegally purchased the weapon in San Francisco about two weeks prior, and had slept with it loaded under his pillow the night before, forgetting to remove it in the morning.
Land said Jackson was allowed to use Skype to do a video call to the boy’s hospital room Wednesday. Monday, she held a press conference on the steps of the Capitol to ask Newsom for help. “My whole life I grew up around gun violence,” he said. “I feel that where I’m from, a parent shouldn’t have to raise their child in an environment like that. Where I’m from, it’s easy to be killed but harder to survive.”
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