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NH Police arrest man after children left in car with loaded gun

NH Police arrest man after children left in car with loaded gun
NH Police arrest man after children left in car with loaded gun 00:29

MANCHESTER -  Manchester Police have charged a man for leaving his three young children alone in the car with a loaded gun while he ran into Walmart on Monday.

Tyler Kennedy was charged with three counts of child endangerment.

Police received a report of children left unattended in a vehicle. When they arrived they found the vehicle with three children -- ages 9, 1 and 8 months -- in the vehicle with the doors locked and the car running. Witnesses said the children had been in the car for about 20 minutes.

Police found a backpack in the car with a loaded gun and a knife inside and accessible to the children.

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