Beech Grove father jailed after boy waves gun during 'On Patrol: Live,' records show

Update: Shane Osborne was formally charged with dangerous control of a firearm and two counts of neglect of a dependent Jan. 17, 2023, according to the Marion County Prosecutor's Office.

A Beech Grove father was taken into custody after a video broadcast on live TV showed his young son waving a handgun in the air and at one point pointing the weapon at his head with his finger on the trigger.

The man’s arrest was shown on Reelz series “On Patrol: Live,” during the TV show’s live broadcast Saturday. He was identified as Shane Osborne, 45, and is facing a preliminary neglect of dependent charge, jail records show.

Beech Grove police officers were alerted to the situation by a downstairs neighbor, who reported the boy had a handgun and was pointing it at people, according to the probable cause affidavit for Osborne’s arrest.

The boy is 4 years old, police stated.

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The TV show captured officers arriving at the apartment complex and then speaking with a neighbor outside her apartment. The neighbor told them she believed the boy had possession of a real gun.

Officers went upstairs to the apartment where they believed the child lived, and the door was answered by a boy. Osborne then walked to the front of the apartment and stated he had been sick all day and did not know his child left the unit, according to police.

Osborne denied having a gun in the apartment and told officers he did not even have a toy gun inside his residence in the broadcast of the television show.

“I have never brought a gun into this house,” Osborne said, as a cartoon show played in the background on a TV in the living room. “If there is, it’s my cousin’s."

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Osborne assisted officers in a “cursory” search of the apartment and no firearms were in plain view, according to the affidavit.

Officers were leaving the apartment complex when they were approached by another neighbor, who alerted them to surveillance video of the child with the gun.

The surveillance video was broadcast on the show and captured the boy walking around the hallway of the apartment complex waiving the gun above his head. At one point in the video, the child points the gun toward his face.

Officers went back to the man’s apartment and stated they had video of the child holding a gun. The man continued to deny owning a gun but stated a relative may have left one in the apartment, according to the affidavit.

Police searched a bedroom closet and did not find the gun. An officer asked the child where he put the gun and the boy assisted law enforcement in locating it, the affidavit states.

The firearm was in the living room inside a roll-top desk underneath a TV. The gun had 15 rounds in the magazine but no rounds in the chamber, according to the affidavit.

The broadcast showed officers securing and taking custody of the firearm before arresting Osborne. The man told officers the firearm belonged to his cousin, according to the affidavit.

Osborne also stated he did not know the weapon was in the apartment or that his child knew where it was. The man stated that both he and the child’s mother were ill that day, and he thought the child was watching TV and playing, the affidavit reads.

After it was broadcast on TV, the man’s arrest was reported by CNN, The Washington Post and other media outlets across the country.

Osborne's initial court hearing is slated for Thursday afternoon.

Contact Jake Allen at jake.allen@indystar.com. Follow him on Twitter @Jake_Allen19.

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