A three-year-old's loaded gun at daycare brings charges, and a crowd to FOX 2 Detroit
Twelve hours after it was posted, the report on a Detroit police officer and the boy's mother being charged had nearly 140,000 views, and its comment section was busier still.
FOX 2 DetroitStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 203,124 views a day, 85 times a normal first day on this channel (2,396).
Detroit cop and mom of toddler charged for son bringing loaded gun to daycare
Twelve hours online, and FOX 2 Detroit's report from a courtroom in its own coverage area had drawn nearly 140,000 views. A new video on the channel usually finds a few thousand people in its whole first day.
The report covers the arraignment of a Detroit police officer and the mother of a three-year-old boy. Both were charged after the boy brought a loaded gun to his daycare in Canton in his backpack on a Monday morning. Investigators say the child found the holstered handgun in his bag and took it out while he was in his classroom. The description does not report anyone being hurt.
The comment section moved even faster than the views. In those twelve hours it filled with hundreds of comments, where the channel's regular videos usually gather a handful in a full day. Viewers keep coming back to a few questions: how a gun ended up in a toddler's bag, whether nobody checked it before he left home, and whether an officer charged in a case like this should stay on the force. Several say they are relieved that no child was harmed. Others say they have heard of cases like this before.
The last two big days on this channel came from press conferences, one with Dan Campbell and one with Donald Trump. This one is a plain local crime report, the kind the station posts every day, and this time it reached far beyond the usual audience. The charges are only that so far. Neither parent has been convicted.
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- Channel
- FOX 2 Detroit
- Subscribers
- 503,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 132,520 (on a normal day: 106,341)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 138,647 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 203,124
The numbers
Most of the channel's daily uploads stay small. These numbers show how far this one went past that in half a day.
