The father of a 4-year-old boy who shot and killed his 6-year-old neighborhood friend is scheduled to be arraigned at 10 a.m. Monday on six counts of child endangerment, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.

Anthony Senatore, 34, is scheduled to appear before Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels in Ocean County, the report says.

In Toms River on April 8, during a game of "pretend shooting," the 4-year-old boy got his father's loaded rifle and fired it at 6-year-old Brandon Holt, neighbors and prosecutors have said. Brandon died the next day at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune.

Anthony Senatore was indicted in September on six counts of child endangerment, prosecutors said.

The charges allege that in addition to the loaded .22-caliber rifle used to fire the fatal shot, a Stevens 12-gauge shotgun, two Harrington & Richardson shotguns and a Remington 12-gauge shotgun were all found unsecured, in close proximity to ammunition and accessible to Senatore's children, ages 12, 8 and 4.

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