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A 13-year-old Tennessee girl was fatally shot and her mother says it was an accident, investigators told news outlets.
Police responded to a call about a shooting at about 10 p.m. March 23 from a home on Nashville’s south side, police told WTVF. First responders arrived to find a teenage girl with a gunshot wound, police said.
The mother told police she was trying to get her keys from her purse and accidentally caused her .40-caliber pistol to fire, striking her daughter, The Tennessean reported. She stored the handgun in her purse without a holster, police said.
The daughter was taken to a hospital for treatment but died in an emergency room, WKRN reported. So far, no charges have been brought against the girl’s mom, according to officials.
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As a 4-year-old went down for a nap in bed beside his father’s girlfriend, he reached underneath a pillow, Arizona police say. There, his hands felt a 9mm handgun, Moroni Mendez, an officer with the Glendale Police Department, said at a March 21 news conference.
The Glendale boy fired the gun, accidentally shooting himself in the chest the morning of March 20, Mendez said. “What did you do?” his father’s girlfriend told police she asked him as she “cuddled him in her arms,” court documents show. The woman told police the boy said “he was sorry.”
He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said in a news release.
Subsequently, police said the woman, 31, and boy’s father, 44, were arrested. McClatchy News is not identifying the suspects to protect the child’s identity. Each is facing charges of child neglect/abuse, endangerment, and misconduct of weapons stemming from the boy’s accidental shooting, according to police. “It’s just a terrible case,” Mendez said. “It’s one of those cases where we just want to stress the practice of gun safety.”
When officers searched the home, they found .40-caliber rounds throughout the house, including in the master bedroom, court documents show. In addition to finding the 9mm handgun with a loaded magazine beside it, officers also found a rifle round in a men’s jacket inside a closet, court documents show. While searching the back yard, officers found a .40-caliber gun “in the middle of the dirt,” court documents show. Officers also found a handgun magazine in a Dodge Charger, court documents show.
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