Inconceivable tragedy: Eight-year-old playing with his father’s pistol and killing a one-year-old girl

Another gun tragedy shocks them USA. An 8 year old boy playing with it pistol of his father, killed a one-year-old baby and injured another two-year-old over the weekend in Florida.

The father, Roderick Randall, 45, was arrested and charged with negligence that resulted in homicide, illegal possession of firearms and the removal of evidence from a crime scene, said Chip Simmons, Sheriff of Escampia County.

The tragedy unfolded in a motel where the forty-year-old with a heavy criminal record had gone to find his partner. He went with his son. She with her twin children, two years old, and her one-year-old daughter.

At one point, he left the room and dropped the gun “in a cupboard,” Sheriff Simmons explained during a news conference. Knowing where he was hiding, “his son took it and started playing with it.”

“He shot and killed a one-year-old baby. “After penetrating it, the bullet injured one of the twins, but he is expected to survive.”the sheriff added, emphasizing that the mother of the victims was sleeping.

When the father returned, he removed it from the room weapon and substances, possibly drugs, before the police arrived.

The death of the little girl adds to the horrific series of similar accidents in the country.

“Every year, hundreds of children in the United States find themselves unloaded with weapons that have not been safely stored in lockers, nightstands, backpacks, bags, or just abandoned,” she said in a recent report. Everytown For Gun Safety, a government organization, as broadcast by the French Agency and the Athens News Agency.

The NGO, which fights mainly to tighten gun control, estimates that accidents when guns fall into the hands of “unintentionally shooting” children cost the lives of some 350 Americans a year on average.

More broadly, firearms cause some 40,000 deaths a year in the United States, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive.