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So far, no charges have been filed in Saturday night's shooting death of a young boy.Elgin Anders has come forward saying the shooting happened when he dropped a gun and shot Andre O'Neal Jr., 8. He said he regrets what happened.Anders claimed it was an accident, meanwhile Andre's family and friends are mourning.He said the gun discharged when it hit the ground."It fell on the floor, ricocheted, fired from the revolver back of the hammer, fired and hit him," Anders said.“So what happened? It just fell out of your hand?” WLKY reporter Anna-lysa Gale asked Anders.“No, I was taking it out of my pocket. It slipped out of my hand and fired," Anders said.Anders says after the shooting he was in the back seat of a car, while a woman who was in the house drove to Kosair Children's Hospital.They did not wait for emergency responders to arrive."At the time of the moment, we were all shocked," Anders said. “We took him to the hospital. I'm holding him, he was talking to me, well he was moving, showing us some response and I guess when we got there it was over."Community activist Christopher 2x said that was the wrong move.He says Anders should have waited for emergency responders instead of rushing Andre to Kosair, where he was pronounced dead."Who knows how much blood this child lost along the way, where if the professionals could of got to him first, they might could have stopped the bleeding or subsided it for a minute," he said.WLKY spoke Andre’s father over the phone about what Andre was like."We miss everything about him," Andre O’Neal Sr. said. "He was a good little boy, smart, bright. He like to play. I kept him, like, every weekend."Anders said he regrets what happened."I feel horrible, I feel really horrible about the whole situation. I blame me, because it slipped out of my hand," Anders said. Anders said he was not under the influence Saturday night when the gun went off.Police questioned him and at this time, he is not facing any charges.Andre attended Northaven Elementary School in Jeffersonville.