Brandon Holt

Under New Jersey law, leaving a loaded firearm unsecured so that it ends up in a minor's hands is a disorderly-persons charge. Legislation that arose after a Toms River six-year-old was shot by his four-year-old friend is halfway to criminalizing it.

As college students spread out across the area for Winter break, there were many lecture halls filled with final exam takers this past week. But one class at Ocean County College had a different kind of exam - to help a local charity.

A Toms River father of three is now serving a three year prison sentence for failing to secure the loaded rifle in his home that was used to kill a six-year-old boy in 2013. The sentence follows 35-year-old Anthony Senator's guilty plea to two counts of Child Endangerment last year...

35-year-old Anthony Senatore of Toms River faces three years in prison after pleading guilty to leaving unsecured loaded weapons in his house that his 4-year-old son used to fatally shoot his 6-year-old freind last year. According to NJ...

The State Senate passes a bill to toughen penalties against reckless gun owners if a child gains access to their loaded firearm and injures or kills another person. The bill (S-516), sponsored by shore State Senator Jim Holzapfel (R-10), would change the law from a disorderly persons offense to a third or fourth degree crime. ...

The father of a 4-year-old boy who shot to death a 6-year-old neighbor with his father's unsecured gun has rejected a plea bargain that would have required him to serve seven years in prison.

The father of a young Toms River boy who fatally shot his 6-year-old playmate earlier this year was indicted Wednesday on six counts of child endangerment.

The family of 6-year-old Brandon Holt, the Toms River boy accidentally shot and killed by his 4-year-old neighbor, filed a lawsuit against the younger child's parents.

The parents of the 6-year-old Toms River boy who was fatally shot by his four year old playmate has filed a six-count civil suit today against the other family.

The father of the four-year-old Toms River boy, who fatally shot his six-year-old friend last month while they were playing outside, was expected in court today, but according to his attorney, he will likely not be there.