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An 8-year-old boy found a .45-caliber pistol in an Eastvale home and accidentally shot a man in the head, say Riverside County sheriff’s officials.

The 39-year-old victim suffered a non-life threatening bullet wound during the 10:10 p.m. incident Saturday, Feb. 9, along Elm Grove Avenue, Sgt. Bill Davis said in a written statement.

The boy had discovered the loaded pistol in a dresser drawer in the upstairs master bedroom, Davis wrote.

“The juvenile fired one round into the floor … (and) struck the victim, who was sitting downstairs at the kitchen table,” according to the statement. “The owner of the firearm was arrested.”

Forty-year-old Carlos Santillan Serafico was arrested at 12:14 a.m. Sunday and booked for investigation of felony first-degree criminal storage of a firearm, jail records show. His bail is $5,000.