A local new story in St. Louis begins, “[a]nother child has been killed by a gun, this time a 6-year-old …  St. Louis Police are not releasing much information.”  It is at least the tenth death of a child in or around St. Louis since the beginning of the year.

According to the report, a caller told police that the boy had shot himself.  “When Police arrived, the child was already dead.”

Source: 

Maria Keena, “6-year-old Boy Shot, Killed in St. Louis,” KMOX NewRadio 1120 (July 15, 2020).