The Niles (Michigan) Tribune reported last week one of the most bizarre gun deaths I’ve ever heard about. Read on and judge for yourself.

A teenaged couple and their infant son all live with grandma. On this day, during the middle of April, grandma decides to straighten up around the house. When she gets to the kitchen she finds a .40 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol in one of the drawers.

Grandma takes the gun out of the drawer and puts it on the broiler rack in the gas oven and closes the door. Now it’s early afternoon.

Family activity is normal for the next few hours. Now grandma decides it’s time for some pizza. The table is set and grandma turns on the oven and in a few minutes, she pops the pizza onto one of the shelves. The five-month-old baby is in a car seat in the middle of the couch in the living room.

A few minutes after the oven is turned on the gun goes off! The bullet passes through the metal wall of the oven, the wooden cabinet, then travels about 25 feet into the living room.

The .40 caliber bullet strikes the baby in the head. Someone calls 911. Meanwhile, the family does everything they can think of. They try to stop the bleeding by using pressure. They try resuscitation, but nothing works.

The baby isn’t breathing nor does he have a pulse. An ambulance takes the baby to the hospital in the nearby town of Niles where a team of doctors try to revive the baby, but it’s just too late. The infant is pronounced dead in the ER.

Investigators from the Cass County Sheriff’s Department say it was heat from the oven that caused the gun to discharge on its own and no foul play is suspected.