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3-year-old fatally shot dead at home
CHICAGO, Ill. (STNG) — The death of a 3-year-old Roselle Jaquan Reed, fatally shot in the chest early Sunday on the West Side has been ruled a homicide. A weapon was accidentally discharged at the residence, with two juveniles were present. The shooting is initially being classified as an accident, Banks said. No one is in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )14-year-old girl shot to death a 12-year-old boy
MARSING, Idaho – a 14-year-old girl found a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol in a closet of a residence she was visiting around 2 p.m. Sunday. She brought the pistol into the living room where the boy, Marcos Jaramillo, and a friend were watching television and accidentally fired one round while handling the firearm, officials said. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )12-year-old Boy Dies After Accidentally Firing Gun
HAMMOND, Ore. — A 12-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself Sunday in the western Oregon town of Hammond, police said. Warrenton police said a bullet from a .22-caliber pistol struck and killed Austin Matschiner. The gun used in the shooting belongs to his family. The sixth grader died in his room Sunday morning, medical [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Man’s shoot death ruled accidental
Lyles Station, IN – A Lyles Station man was died on Friday after shooting himself with his own handgun, investigators say. Pedro Alvarez, 31, who resided on West Railroad Lane in Lyles Station, apparently had been firing the gun earlier at his residence with a friend, according to Gibson County Coroner Barrett Doyle. Alvarez was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Roommate charged in 18-year-old man’s shooting death
Portland, Oregon – Andrew Gabriel Perez, 11750 E. Burnside St., was arrested Tuesday after Portland police were called to the house at about 2:30 p.m. and found 18-year-old Chance Domingo Caron dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. Perez and Caron lived together at the house. Perez was lodged in the Multnomah County [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hunter shot to death on the opening of hunting season
Walkersville, West Virgina – Investigators with the DNR continue their efforts to find the person responsible for the death of a turkey hunter in Lewis County on the opening day of spring gobbler season. Thirty-two year old Shawn Stewart of Walkersville was killed on opening day Monday. His body was discovered a day later after [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )19-year-old man shot dead by accident as friend shows off gun
Bronx, New York City – Investigators believe a 19-year-old Bronx man was accidentally shot to death Sunday by a friend who was showing off his handgun, police sources said. Juan Acevedo took a bullet to the chest as he was hanging out with pals in an apartment just two blocks from the new Yankee Stadium, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Police say shooting death of 19-year-old was accidental
Tampa, Florida – A 19-year-old who was accidentally shot in the face after a friend said the teen had been playing with a handgun has died, police said today. John Taylor Weber was taken to Tampa General Hospital on Friday in critical condition. He died about 4 this morning, Tampa police said. Weber was a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Two-year-old toddler shot herself to death in Indiana
Crawford County, Indiana – A two-year-old southern Indiana toddler shot herself to death after finding a loaded gun. It happened at a home in Milltown in Crawford County. “The mother, the stepfather and child were all in the same room. Just in a split second is my understanding, the gun went off and the child [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )4-year-old accidentally shot herself with the gun at hom
Birmingham, Alabama – A 4-year-old girl who accidentally shot herself in the head this afternoon has died, Birmingham police said. The girl, whose name hasn’t been released, reportedly found the handgun under a couch cushion in her home and shot herself point-blank in the forehead. Witnesses reported the girl’s mother emerged from the family’s apartment [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Seventh-grader fatally shot while playing with gun
Atlanta, Georgia – Tyquavious, 13, a seventh-grader at Crawford Long Middle School in southeast Atlanta, was fatally shot when he and two others were playing with a gun that discharged and hit him, police spokesman Eric Schwartz said. Steven Gentry, 20, was arrested on a murder charge. Police recovered the gun in the apartment. It [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )19-year-old man fatally shot while handling a weapon with a friend
Colorado Springs, Colorado – Officers responded to the shooting at 12:07 a.m. Hennessey and a second man were handling a weapon when it went off, hitting Hennessey in the abdomen, police said. Hennessey was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police did not identify the second man, saying the case was under investigation. Prosecutors with the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fort Lewis soldier fatally shot
Seattle, Washington – A Fort Lewis soldier died today of an apparent gun shot wound to the head, a death now under investigation by Army officials. The soldier was found at 12:20 p.m. in his car and was taken to Madigan Army Medical Center, where he died at about 2:30 p.m., according to Fort Lewis [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )15-year-old charged as juvenile in man’s death
Chicago, Illinois – Police said the 23-year-old victim, Deonta Mansheck, was shot in the chest about 10:45 a.m. Sunday in a residence in the 7100 block of South Marshfield Avenue. Kathy Davis, who lives at the home, said Monday afternoon that she was told the teen was showing Mansheck a gun he was holding for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )5-year-old boy accidentally shoots 4-year-old sister
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Indianapolis police say a 5-year-old boy playing with his father’s semiautomatic handgun accidentally shot and killed his younger sister. Four-year-old Makayla Booher was shot in the head Sunday morning and pronounced dead at the scene. Police say her brother had taken her father’s pistol from the top shelf of a bookcase to [...]
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