Daily Summaries of Unintended Shooting Incidents Based on Local Media Reports
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- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026Four People Injured After Gun Discharges Inside Grocery Store Multiple people were injured when a gun went off at a grocery store in Bonaire, Georgia. The firearm was in a customer’s pocket. When they went to retrieve something else from that pocket, the gun fired into the floor, sending fragments flying that injured four adults. One of the customers and her …
- TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2026Toddler and Teen Wounded in Accidental Shootings in Florida In Tampa, Florida, a three-year-old boy injured his forearm after he discharged a gun that belonged to his mother’s 30-year-old boyfriend, Steve Jaleel Cleion Johnson. The boy, his mother, and Johnson were in bed, when Johnson left to go the bathroom leaving an unsecured gun behind. The boy took the gun …
- MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2026Two Teens Shot in Car Outside Fast-food Restaurant During a food run to a local fast-food restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico, two teenagers waiting in the backseat of car, were injured when 26-year-old Justin Leithead accidentally shot them. Leithead had returned to the vehicle, opened the back door and pulled out a Glock 17 pistol which discharged. “I pulled …
- SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 202619-year-old Accidentally Shot by 16-year-old Family Member In Elkhart, Indiana, a 19-year-old was accidentally shot in the back of the head by a 16-year-old male family member. The victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries, and was taken to the hospital for treatment. The case is being reviewed by the prosecutor’s office. Source: “Teen Accidentally Shoots Family Member in Back of Head in …
- SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 202612-year-old Boy Accidentally Shot and Killed by Friend In his home in Atlanta, Georgia, 12-year-old Cameron Coney was accidentally shot and killed by a 14-year-old friend. Some of Cameron’s friends had came over that day and brought a gun with them. “It was told that one of them pointed a gun at all of the friends in there, and when he …
- FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2026Two-year-old Fatally Shot by Four-year-old Sibling Two-year-old Crewe Zahradnik, died at the scene in Lamartine, Wisconsin, after a four-year-old sibling shot him with a gun found in the center console of the family’s vehicle. The siblings, and a third child, were in the vehicle in the driveway of their home, when their parent went back into the house to get …
- THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2026Toddlers Shoot Themselves in Two Separate Gun Accidents A two-year-old boy in Harvey, Louisiana, shot himself with a gun he found in his uncle’s home. The boy is expected to survive. His uncle, 29-year-old Cedric Johnson, was arrested on multiple charges including cruelty to a juvenile, obstruction of justice, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. And a …
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