He found a loaded gun in the house and took it as if it were any object, a toy. In Texas, a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot her 4-year-old sister dead. The incident happened on Sunday in Houston. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the girls were in the bedroom of an apartment where they live with their parents.
There were five other adults in the house at the time, but the girls were unattended. One of her parents thought he was looking at the other. The sheriff explained, “The 3-year-old had access to a loaded semi-automatic pistol. Family members heard only one gunshot. They ran into the room and found the other one unresponsive.’ The girl was pronounced dead at the scene after police responded to a 911 call from her family.
“It feels like another tragic story of a child gaining access to a firearm and injuring someone else and this time there was a fatal shot,” Gonzalez said. The Harris County District Attorney’s office will decide whether any of the adults face charges.
“The community is affected when a child loses their life like this,” Gonzalez said, adding that this was also an avoidable gunshot death. «We continue to send the message saying these cases exist and are foreseeable. You need to be sure that you are a responsible gun owner by securing your guns. It has to be more than just telling kids not to touch guns», reports the cbs.
The case is not isolated. On February 3 in Wharton, Texas, a boy found his mother’s gun and shot himself. According to data analyzed by the advocacy group** Everytown for Gun Safety,** in 2023, there were at least 58 unintentional shootings involving children and young people in the United States, resulting in 22 deaths and 37 injuries. In all of 2022 there were at least 353 such shootings with 156 dead and 212 injured.
Data of Center for disease control and prevention analyzed in a study by New England journal of medicine they say more than 4,300 young Americans died in 2020 from firearms. They are more than those who have lost their lives in road accidents which up to now had always been indicated in statistics as the first cause of death among children and young people from 1 to 19 years of age. All gun deaths are counted: suicides, homicides and accidents with guns and the like.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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