Westfield police arrested a man after they said he accidentally shot his girlfriend's son early Tuesday.
Police said they responded to the Casey Acres Apartments near West 176th Street and Spring Mill Road around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday on a report of a person shot.
Officers located an 18-year-old inside an apartment with a gunshot wound in his upper right shoulder. Medics pronounced the the 18-year-old dead at the scene.
Police said Garrick J. Baker was intoxicated when he was handling a gun, which investigators said discharged and struck the 18-year-old while he was sleeping on a couch.
Baker was arrested on initial arrest charges of criminal recklessness and reckless homicide.
Police confirmed the 18-year-old was a student at Westfield High School.
A spokesperson for Westfield schools could not confirm the student's name.
The case will now be reviewed by the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office to determine possible charges against Baker.