The Consequences of Inattention to Gun Safety

Daily Summaries of Unintended Shooting Incidents Based on Local Media Reports

RECENT JOURNAL POSTS

  • WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2026
    Man Grazed By Bullet From Next-door Neighbor In an Arlington, Texas apartment, a man was not seriously injured after his leg was grazed by a bullet that came through the wall from a neighboring apartment. Police found multiple people inside the neighbor’s unit, and determined that 30-year-old David Hernandez Martinez was responsible for the shooting. He was arrested and charged …
  • TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2026
    Parents Charged After Children Shoot Themselves; Toddler Killed, Six-year-old Wounded In a Florissant, Missouri home, 27-year-old Jordan L. Burns left a gun accessible to his three-year-old son, who found it and shot himself in the head. Burns had been drinking, and was the only adult at home with the child when the accident occurred. The toddler died at the hospital. …
  • MONDAY, MAY 11, 2026
    Teen in Critical Condition After Shooting Himself in the Head At a baseball field in the Bronx, New York, a 15-year-old boy shot himself in the head playing around with a gun a 13-year-old friend had brought with him. He is in critical by stable condition at the hospital. The 13-year-old was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and …
  • SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2026
    Woman Critically Wounded After Being Shot in Head A woman is in critical condition after being accidentally shot in the head by 21-year-old Jovany Hernandez, at a small get-together in Buhl, Alabama. People there were drinking and firing guns, and Hernandez was seen at times to be “pulling” a pistol playfully. Witnesses believed that he did not intend to shoot the victim, as there …
  • SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2026
    Four-year-old Killed in Accidental Shooting Following a birthday party in an Alexandria, Louisiana home, four-year-old Londen Austin, was shot and killed in a shooting that involved another four-year-old child. Londen and the other child were unsupervised as they played with a stolen gun that discharged.  The police chief called the Pre-K student’s death preventable. “This heartbreaking incident serves as a devastating reminder of the …
  • FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2026
    One Person Injured in Accidental Shooting An accidental shooting was reported in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. One person was taken to the hospital for treatment, but no other details about the incident were reported. Source: Mike Robertson, “Authorities in Lawrence County Report an Accidental Gunshot Wound,” ecommnewsnetwork.com (May 11, 2026).
  • THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026
    Teenager Shot With Gun Thought To Be Unloaded In a home in Clinton, Iowa, a 15-year-old boy was injured when the gun that 23-year-old Caleb Davis pointed at him, fired. The boy’s current condition was not reported. Davis told police that he and people in the home routinely “dry fired” guns at one another, and thought the gun was unloaded, …

Key Materials

© All material on this blog is copyrighted to GKlein Consulting (2023). www.gkleinconsulting.net