The Newberry County Sheriff's Department is investigating a Sunday night shooting that left two children injured.
Deputies responded to a home on Wilson Rd. in Newberry shortly after 6:30 p.m. yesterday following reports of a shooting involving a young child. Deputies say two children, ages four and two, had been shot, one in the hand and other in the foot.
Newberry County EMS treated both children at the scene for non life-threatening injures before they were taken to the hospital. A Newberry Sheriff's Office Facebook post states that two other two other young children were at the home during the incident but were not injured.
Both Tyresa Cunningham, 28, and Tyleik Sanders, 21, have been charged with unlawful neglect toward a child. Sanders also is charged with obstruction of justice.
Investigators say a gun was inside a closet when one of the children found it but have not yet determined which child pulled the trigger.
In a statement, Cunningham says she was cleaning the house and Sanders says he was in the shower when the shooting happened. Sanders is accused of getting rid of the gun before deputies could recover it.