Authorities are holding a Toms River, N.J., gun owner responsible after his 4-year-old son accidentally shot and killed a 6-year-old neighbor outside their home last month.

Anthony Senatore, 33, was arrested Monday night in nearby Bayville by investigators with the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, which is handling the Ocean County investigation, Toms River Patch reports.

Senatore is charged with five counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of children and one count of third-degree endangering the welfare of children. He is also charged with a disorderly persons offense for enabling access by minors to a loaded firearm, according to Patch.com.

Authorities say Senatore’s 4-year-old son accidentally shot and killed 6-year-old Brandon Holt with a .22-caliber rifle he found inside his home as the two boys played on the evening of April 8.

Investigators recovered a total of five firearms from Senatore’s home while investigating the shooting, including the .22-caliber rifle. Each allegedly unsecured weapon drew a second-degree count of endangering the welfare of children.

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Anzor Tsarnaev, who calls himself father of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, gave an interview in Makhachkala, calling one of his sons an “angel.”

“They were set up, they were set up!” he added. “I saw it on television; they killed my older son Tamerlan.”

“I’m scared for my boy – that they will shoot him dead too,” said the thin man in a black-and-blue sweater. “They should arrest him, bring him in, alive. And the judicial system should investigate everything, who’s right and who’s guilty.”

Tsarnaev also said he was expecting the younger brother to visit him in Dagestan soon for summer holidays, before cutting the interview short.

It was not possible to independently verify he was the brothers’ father, but he has also been identified as such in Russian and other media reports.

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are ethnic Chechen brothers who spent much of their lives away from the breakaway Russian republic and showed few signs of radicalism in the United States, friends and relatives said.

The suspect’s uncle, who lives in Maryland, said Friday morning that the brothers had brought shame to the family. Their aunt, who lives in Toronto, Canada, said her nephews must have been set up.

Reuters contributed reporting.

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An 8-year-old girl driving a car at 100 km/h while her parents urged her is the latest viral video hit from Russia.

In the video, Karina Mikulchik, who is not wearing a seat beat, is behind the wheel in an Audi on an icy narrow country road outside St. Petersburg.

Her father, Dmitry, is in the front passenger seat and after his daughter reaches 90 km/h can be heard saying, “Come on! Give some gas! At least, 100 km/h!” Meanwhile, her mother, Elena, is in the backseat filming her daughter’s antics. After the speedometer hits 100, the father promises to put the video on VKontakte, Russia’s popular social network.

Throughout the 5:40 video clip, now viral on YouTube, despite her constant grins Karina appears a little tense, with her father occasionally puts his hand on the steering wheel to correct the direction of the drive.

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Local Russian traffic police are now looking at the video footage. “An examination will be carried out in accordance with the Code of Administrative Offenses,” the press office of the traffic police said in a statement. “Video and all materials will be explored with the involvement and other services.” According to Russia’s traffic code, letting someone unauthorized to drive is punishable by a fine of 2,500 rubles (€63; $82).

“We must clearly identify when this video was shot. Maybe it was filmed last winter. Each article of the law has its own time limit,” a spokesperson for the regional traffic police told Metro.

The video footage has earned mixed opinions. Svetlana Agapitova, the ombudsman for children’s rights in St. Petersburg, has pointed to child negligence in this case, according to the Piter.Tv news website. But social media users have come to the parents’ defense. “The car is good, the car is in automatic, the father is beside the girl and can always take the wheel, the road is empty. People have gotten hysterical, but in vain,” wrote Yuri on Vkontake.

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