Daily Summaries of Unintended Shooting Incidents Based on Local Media Reports
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- 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 …
- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026Woman Accidentally Shot During Fight at Smoke Shop A woman was accidentally shot during a fight with another person in a Raleigh, North Carolina smoke shop. A verbal argument between the two had escalated. The suspect hit the woman in the face with a pistol, causing it to fire a bullet that grazed the woman’s chest. She was taken to …
- TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2026Four-year-old Child Injured in Gun Cleaning Accident A gun discharged while 22-year-old Travon Prater was cleaning it, injuring a four-year-old child in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The child was airlifted to the hospital for surgery; their current condition was not reported. Prater told police he was reassembling a Glock 17, and it “went off” when he inserted the magazine. Officers recovered the gun, and …
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