Skye McBride is still in serious condition at the hospital following the gunshot on February 14.
According to John Potbury, Genesee County’s deputy chief assistant prosecutor, Michael Tolbert, 44, was arraigned on Monday on nine felony counts, including one count of first-degree child abuse and breaking Michigan’s weapons storage legislation.
Only the day before, on the first anniversary of a shooting at Michigan State University that left two students dead and numerous others badly injured, had Michigan’s new safe storage gun law gone into effect.
It is a component of the state’s comprehensive reform of firearms laws.
A week after a Michigan jury found the mother of the gunman guilty of involuntary manslaughter, the legislation went into force, making her the first parent in US history to be held accountable for a child carrying out a mass school killing.
