The sheriff called the shooting 'tragic' but 'very preventable.'
By Chris Boyette and Eric Levenson, CNN A 3-year-old girl fatally wounded her 4-year-old sister in an unintentional shooting in Texas, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
The 3-year-old got hold of a loaded semiautomatic pistol, Gonzalez said. The family heard a gunshot and ran into the room, where they found the 4-year-old girl unresponsive on the floor. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio The shooting is just the latest instance of a child using an unsecured firearm and causing tragedy. The most prominent such shooting recently involved a 6-year-old boy who shot his elementary school teacher earlier this year in Newport News, Virginia; the teacher is recovering.
"In no other similarly large or wealthy country are firearm deaths in the top 4 causes of mortality let alone the number 1 cause of death among children," a Kaiser Family Foundation study wrote last year.
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