Lauderdale County investigators say a three-year-old child fired a semi-automatic handgun Saturday afternoon, leaving him wounded in the chest.

WHNT is reporting the incident happened about 2:52 p.m. Saturday, when authorities learned of a three-year-old gunshot victim being taken to a hospital in a private vehicle.

According to Sheriff Joe Hamilton, deputies and emergency medical services met the vehicle at a business on Alabama 157 in Florence.

The child, whose name was not released, was airlifted to Birmingham for treatment and was released Sunday with a grazing wound on the chest.

Initial reports are that the child found the gun in the bedroom of his grandparent’s home on May Branch Loop Road in Cloverdale.

The incident is still under investigation.