Dateline:  CHICAGO, IL

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Chicago police say two children were injured when a loaded handgun hidden inside an oven discharged when the stove was heated for cooking.

Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Smith of Chicago has been charged with two counts of endangering the life of a child.

Police spokesman Marcel Bright says Smith apparently had hidden the gun in the oven.

The injured children's sister was cooking Friday afternoon when the gun went off. A 4-year-old boy is in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the leg. His 12-year-old brother was struck on the forehead by a fragment from the gun. He has been treated and released.

Smith, a convicted felon on parole, also was charged with unlawful use of a weapon.

It was not immediately clear if Smith was represented by an attorney.

Comments (4)

igno rant: ... Can you think of a dumber place to hide a gun? 1 March 22, 2008 thesarge: ... Now I know what the expression "hot right from the oven" really means! 2 March 24, 2008 tseciwa: ... people like him should not be armed anyway. hell, they should not be able to reproduce! 3 March 24, 2008 arthuj: ... Check history a bit and you will find that a former Madison, WI Chief of Police was once guilty of a very similar thing, fortunate for him, no one was seriously injured. He wasn't charged with anything either (not even reckless use of a firearm?) 4 April 05, 2008

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