Daily Summaries of Unintended Shooting Incidents Based on Local Media Reports
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- SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 202518-year-old Injured Taking Apart a Gun According to a probable cause statement, an 18-year-old in Chillicothe, Missouri, accidentally shot himself while trying to disassemble a gun. Before the shooting, the victim and Colin Andrew Reed-Allen were posing for photos with the gun while drinking alcohol and consuming marijuana. Kaliah Nichole Wilson who was present, originally told police she didn’t know …
- SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2025Three People in Texas Injured in Accidental Shootings A 19-year-old in San Antonio, Texas, shot himself while driving home. No other details were reported and no one has been charged. In Corpus Christi, Texas, a 17-year-old boy was injured when the gun he was handling unintentionally discharged. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition, but is expected to survive. He was charged …
- FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2025Five-year-old Girl Shot and Killed by Younger Brother A five-year-old girl was shot and killed by her three-year-old brother in a home in Henderson, North Carolina. The girl’s grandmother, who was not present during the shooting, said five children lived in the home, and described her granddaughter as “a girlie girl.” “Her youngest brother got ahold of a gun that was …
- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 202518-year-old Killed in Accidental Shooting An 18-year-old man was killed in an accidental shooting in Moses Lake, Washington. It was determined that the victim and a 22-year-old man were playing with a gun that discharged. No further information was reported, as police continue to investigate. Source: Flverson, “Moses Lake Accidental Shooting Leaves 18-year-old Dead,” fox28spokane.com (February 28, 2025).
- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2025Toddler Killed After Finding Loaded Gun at Home A three-year-old boy found a loaded, unsecured gun in his Tucson, Arizona home, and fatally shot himself in the head. His father, 23-year-old Anthony Noriega, told police that he “keeps all the firearms loaded with a round in the chamber” all around the home, acknowledging that they were unsecured and could be easily …
- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2025Teen Unintentionally Injures Himself With Gun in Waistband Near a mall in Lynnwood, Washington, a 15-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the groin with a gun he was carrying in his waistband. He tossed the gun to a 13-year-old friend who was with him; the gun discharged again, but struck no one this time, and the two boys fled the …
- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2025Two Men Injured in Self-inflicted Gun Accidents Police are investigating an accidental shooting in Springfield, Massachusetts that injured one man. It appears that he shot himself unintentionally, and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. And in Baltimore, Maryland, a man shot himself while running from police. He took off when he was approached by police on patrol, and accidentally shot himself in the …
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