Man Told Child to Put Gun in Their Mouth: Middletown Police

MIDDLETOWN, CT — A Middletown man was arrested after police say he told a child to put an unloaded gun in their mouth.

Gary Krol, 48, of Pine Street, turned himself in at police headquarters on an active arrest warrant on Friday, Nov. 4.

During the incident, Krol held an unloaded gun in his hand and didn’t point it at the victim but asked the victim to put the gun in their mouth after the victim had made several statements of wanting to kill himself throughout the day, according to the police report.

At the time, the hand gun was “cable locked with the cable going from the mag-well through the chamber of the weapon rendering the weapon inoperable,” police wrote in the report.

Krol was charged with risk of injury to a minor. He was later released on a $5,000 non-surety bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 14.

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