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While Mark Anthony Dunlap Sr. was taking care of his two juvenile sons at his Hepburn Township home on Oct. 14, one of the boys was shot in the buttocks by his younger brother, according to Lycoming Regional police.
However, Dunlap, 35, of 4021 Pleasant Valley Road, Cogan Station, never sought medical care for the injured 11-year-old boy, who was shot by his 7-year-old brother with his father's gun, police alleged in an affidavit prepared by Detective Justin Segura.
When he was questioned days later by a school
official about the boy's injuries, Dunlap lied about what really happened, police said.
He surrendered Wednesday morning to face a felony charge of endangering the welfare of a child.
After the shooting, the son wanted to be taken "to the hospital, but Dunlap told him that he (the son) would be taken away" if the hospital got involved, the affidavit stated.
The son missed a few days of school, but when he was back in class, he went to see the school nurse after blood from "the wound bled through his bandage and his shorts," the affidavit stated.
When the school contacted Dunlap, "he told the school nurse that his son had fallen on rocks," the court document stated.
Dunlap then kept the brothers from returning to their mother, who lives in Bradford County, telling her "that they were ill," police were told.
When the boys did return to their mother's on Nov. 5, the older brother told her "he had a secret, but didn't want his father to find out that he told her," according to the affidavit.
The son told his mother that three weeks ago he was shot in the buttocks by his brother with their father's gun, police said.
"The younger brother confirmed this," and both boys said their father ordered them not to tell anyone about what had happened, police said.
The mother took the older brother to Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, where a scan revealed "fragments of the bullet remained inside the child," the affidavit stated.
A doctor told the boy's mother that a bullet had entered and exited her son's buttocks, Segura said.
When police questioned Dunlap, he confirmed his sons' account of the shooting. Following his arraignment before District Judge Gary Whiteman, Dunlap was released on $10,000 bail.