Exclusive: Gun Owner Speaks After Two-Year-Old Shoots Grandma

ROCK HILL, SC — Police charged the great-aunt who owned the gun a two-year-old used to shoot his grandmother Sunday. 

WCCB Charlotte’s Courtney Francisco was the only local reporter there as she bonded out of jail hours after her first court appearance.

Police say the shooting could have been prevented if 24-year-old Daisha Ervin did not leave her gun in the open and near the toddler.

When WCCB Charlotte asked why she left her loaded revolver within reach of the two-year-old, she said, “I don’t have anything to say.”

She’s charged with carrying a pistol unlawfully.

Police say Ervin was driving the little boy and his grandmother near Heckle Boulevard and Odgen Road Sunday afternoon. The child was not in a car seat. He reached in the pocket on the back of the passenger seat in front of him and fired the weapon. The bullet hit his grandmother in the back. She survived.

“A lot of people are just concerned that you did have a gun so close to a kid. Did you just forget about it?” asked WCCB Charlotte.

“I can’t answer any questions; none of those questions,” said Ervin.

Under South Carolina law, her gun should have been in the glove box, dash or in a container in the trunk of her car.

“Just talking around our law enforcement center, we felt it would have never occurred if the child were properly restrained in a car seat,” said Capt. Mark Bollinger.

We asked Ervin what she has learned since her arrest.

“I’ve taken a lot, but it’ll all settle out,” said Ervin.

Investigators say the woman should know the law. She lists her employer as the SC Department of Corrections. A job she denied Thursday.

We called, and the state says Ervin is an Intensive Supervision Officer in Greenville.

That’s a case manager that works closely with juvenile offenders.

The charge against her is a misdemeanor. She faced up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine if guilty.