A 5-year-old girl told her mom she found a gun under her pillow when she was visiting her dad in New Haven.
Shaquan Hayes, 32, of New Haven, the girl's father, is a convicted felon on probation, police said. Police arrested him on multiple charges including risk of injury to a child and criminal possession of a firearm after responding to a gun complaint at a Hamden home at 7:36 p.m. on Oct. 6, police said.
The 5-year-old girl's mother told police that her daughter said that she found a handgun under her pillow while she was visiting Hayes that weekend in New Haven. The mother confirmed to police that the girl's father had a handgun and that she had seen it before.
Police obtained a search and seizure warrant later that day and found a loaded Colt "Detective Special" .38-caliber revolver in a bedroom in his New Haven home, police said. Detectives also discovered drugs and drug packing materials mixed in with children's toys and clothes.
Hayes is on probation for a drug crime conviction.
Police charged him with criminal possession of a firearm, multiple counts of risk of injury to a child and probation violations, escaping from custody and several narcotics crimes.
