Gun Hidden In Stove Goes Off, Injures Man

A man was injured when a loaded gun hidden inside a stove exploded after the homeowner started cooking, Fulton County police said.

Antoine Boutte told police that he normally kept his gun in the bottom of the gas stove so it would not get stolen and said he forgot it was there, according to an incident report obtained by Channel 2 Action News.

According to the report, Boutte and a few others had just returned home at about 3: 30 a.m. Saturday when they began cooking food. That’s when the gun started to melt and bullets started heating up and exploding inside the oven, the report said.

The victim, Christopher Henderson, got hit with part of a bullet casing when he opened the stove to see what was happening. He was driven to Southern Regional Medical Center with non-life-threatening. Henderson was hit in the side of his abdomen.

The incident happened in the 3600 block of Uppark Drive in the Union Crossing subdivision in College Park.

The gun was a Smith & Wesson .40 caliber pistol, the report stated.