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Looks like these parents won’t be going out to the movies again.

Police say a 4-year-old boy shot his babysitter Sunday because the 17-year-old stepped on his foot.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that the boy “retrieved a shell from a drawer in a back bedroom, grabbed a 20-gauge single-shot shotgun from a closet and loaded the weapon … returned to the living room, and in front of another 17-year-old boy and other children, shot [Nathan] Beavers.”

Beavers was treated for wounds from the birdshot, the paper says. The blast also injured another Jackson County, Ohio, teen, according to the Associated Press.

Ugh, it seems like we write that headline every other day around here.

Jackson County prosecutors today filed murder charges against a Jackson County couple, accusing a mother and her boyfriend of abusing a 1-year-old boy.

Kimberly Helmes, 21, and Kyle W. Cooper each face charges of second-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child.

Police were called Friday evening to a home in the 25600 block of East 31st Street in Independence.

Helmes allegedly told police that she put the child in a playpen for a nap. She returned two hours later and found him not breathing. Investigators found apparent injuries that conflicted with the mother’s story. Police said she later recanted and said she had put the boy down hours earlier and admitted that the couple unsuccessfully tried to stitch the boy’s tongue together after it was split open.