A four-year old boy has died after apparently shooting himself in the head. Police were called to a home on Rawson Street in Dundee shortly before 4:30 Sunday afternoon, where EMS crews were already working on the child.
He was taken to the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, where he died.
The gun belonged to a 30-year-old friend of the boy’s father, police said.
The man was arrested on manslaughter and gross negligence charges.
Most gun deaths are the result of accidents within the home.
Guns don't keep us safe, but they kill us in astonishing numbers.
There was another one yesterday..a 13 year old girl was shot in the face by another teen waving an 'unloaded' gun in her face..I think it was in Texas. She hasn't died, but I wonder how maimed she will be. Yeah, the NRA must be so proud.
ReplyDeleteHorrible. Horrible. I hope some good came out of it. I hope the parents opted to donate the child's organs so his death could bring a chance of life for some....
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's sheer boredom.....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nydailynews.com/sports/teenagers-allegedly-murder-college-baseball-player-boredom-article-1.1431445
A gun mortality is a gun mortality is a gun mortality, but it's interesting how each state handles this. Some sherrif's can only conclude that this was a "very tragic accident," and let the household and party to the death live with their 2nd Amendment rights intact.
ReplyDeleteLatest one is from TN, dad showing off his guns, gun goes off, starts fire, ammo blows and both eh and his 12 year old die.
ReplyDeleteAs one poster said, Al Quada wants to thank the NRA for two more dead Americans.
And so we mourn the senseless, unnecessary death of another child; another bright, energetic young life lost to the lack of vigilance and responsibility of an adult who believed having a gun would keep him, his family, and those he cares about, safer. For a curious three-year-old named Damon Holbrook, that did not turn out to be the case.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/20/another-3-year-old-gun-death/
Tennessee father and son dead after AR-15 goes off and ammunition-filled room explodes
ReplyDeleteOfficials in Tennessee say that a father and his 12-year-old son died over the weekend died after an AR-15 assault-style rifle accidentally discharged, causing a fire and then a series of explosions in a room full of ammunition.
WBBJ-TV reported on Monday that Tennessee State Bomb and Arson Investigators, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Henderson County Sheriff’s Department were all looking into the Sunday deaths 48-year-old Terry York and his son, Luke.
According to family members, York’s AR-15 rifle accidentally discharged while he was in a back room of their home showing it off to some friends. The discharge ignited a small fire, which “did not seem too threatening at first,” they told WBBJ-TV. The blaze apparently grew out of control after Luke entered the room to help his father put out fire.
That’s when witnesses started hearing explosions.
“It was just like one right after another,” neighbor Kathleen Glass recalled. “One explosion right after another. I just don’t have the words for it because I can not imagine having to go through something like this.”
The family said that York stored a lot of ammunition in the room where the fire started, but officials insisted that they would conduct a full investigation before coming to any conclusions.
“Any loss of life is tragic, when a child looses their life it hit the community hard,” Henderson County Sheriff Brian Duke explained. “There was maybe an accidental discharge of the weapon from there we haven’t really determined how the fire started but that is what State Bomb and Arson officials are looking into.”
Investigators did say that York and his son were discovered just steps away from the exit, but may have been blinded by the smoke while trying to escape.
“I can’t imagine the suffering mentally, emotionally and physically that they are going through right now,” Duke said of the family.
Watch this video from WBBJ-TV, broadcast Aug. 19. 2013.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/tennessee-father-and-son-dead-after-ar-15-goes-off-and-ammunition-filled-room-explodes/
It is always tragic when a child (and an adult for that matter) loses their life.
ReplyDeleteI must say, though, that according to the FBI, Americans use firearms in self defence 2.1 MILLION times annually. In the vast majority of those self-defense cases, the citizen will only brandish the gun or fire a warning shot.In less than 8% of those self-defense cases will the citizen will even wound his attacker.Over 1.9 million of those self-defense cases involve handguns.As many as 500,000 of those self-defense cases occur away from home.Almost 10% of those self-defense cases are women defending themselves against sexual assault or abuse.
Also, according to castle Rock vs. Gonzales, cops have ZERO obligation to save your life (legally).
Sorry, to go against the "Popular" opinion here, but I am going to continue to choose to protect my family and home with firearms.