St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - A Minnesota man was sentenced this week for conviction connected to a shooting last year but left and 11-year-old boy in critical condition.

According to court documents, 35-year-old Martinez Castillo Lloyd was accused of leaving two handguns in a location that was accessible to children inside his St. Paul home. St. Paul police responded to the residence on the night of March 29 last year after receiving a report of a shooting.

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The criminal complaint filed in the case says the responding officers found the 11-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his face. The child was rushed to Regions Hospital, where he was taken into surgery and was listed in critical condition.

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The court document says investigators learned that Lloyd's son and a 13-year-old girl had taken two handguns from a box in the closet and were waving the weapons around when the .357 caliber revolver been handled by the girl discharged, critically wounding the 11-year-old.

The girl told police that she and others often "played" with the guns.

The charges indicated the girl fled from the home, but was later located at her residence and she told investigators that she believed the gun was not loaded. The court document says she also told police that she and other juveniles had played with the guns "a dozen times the last year" and that Lloyd had seen them playing with the firearms. She stated that, on those occasions, Lloyd ordered them to put the guns back where they had found them.

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Lloyd was charged with illegal possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a crime of violence and a gross misdemeanor count of negligent storage of firearms. He was later convicted of both charges by a Ramsey County judge after he waived his right to a jury trial last July.

He was sentenced this week to five years in prison with credit for the 36 days he has already spent in jail.

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