Daily Summaries of Unintended Shooting Incidents Based on Local Media Reports
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- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 202617-year-old Killed by Stray Bullet Fired Through Motel Wall In a motel room in Lilburn, Georgia, 17-year-old Sheldon Lewis was playing video games, when a bullet from a neighboring room came through the wall and killed him. Family members were in the room and witnessed the shooting. “The gunshot didn’t even sound like a gunshot. It sounded like a pop if something fell, …
- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2026Second Grader Injures Hand With Gun Brought From Home A seven-year-old boy brought a gun to his second-grade classroom in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and accidentally shot himself in the hand. His teacher quickly secured the gun, and took the boy to the nurse’s office to wait for first responders. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. “None of us can imagine the terror or the fear that …
- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2026Teenager Injured After Shooting Himself in the Leg It was determined that a 16-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the thigh on a street in San Antonio, Texas. The teen originally told police that shots were fired from a vehicle as it drove past him. He was taken to the hospital with a non-life-threatening injury. The youth was on probation; …
- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2026One Person Injured After Accidental Shooting One person was injured in an accidental shooting in Spartanburg, South Carolina. They were taken to the hospital in unknown condition. No other information was reported. Source: “One Injured in Reported Accidental Shooting, Deputies Say,” wyff4.com (February 3, 2026).
- SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 202613-year-old Boy Killed in Accidental Shooting A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed in an apartment in Humble, Texas, in what appears to be an accidental shooting. He was pronounced dead at the scene “from at least one gunshot wound.” The boy was living with his aunt at the apartment, and it appears she made the 911 call. Investigators are …
- SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2026Woman Grazed by Unintentional Discharge Inside Walmart A man and woman were in a Fayetteville, North Carolina Walmart together, when a gun the man was carrying unintentionally fired, grazing the woman. Police located the two people after they had left the store together, and determined that the woman’s graze wound did not require treatment. They arrested the man, indicating that …
- FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2026Unintentional Shooting Injures Four People In Springfield, Ohio, a man accidentally discharged a gun striking himself in the hand and injuring three other people. The shooter was treated at a local hospital and released, the other people remain in hospitals in “serious but stable condition.” An ongoing investigation will determine if charges will be filed. Source: Jessica Orozco, “4 Injured in Unintentional Gun Discharge in …
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