Tag: AR-15 Accident

Adult Arrested Adult Injury Alabama California Child Injury (18 and Under) Child Under 18 (as Shooter) Juvenile Arrested Ongoing Investigation Texas by Jo Ellen Ackerman

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2024

Four People Wounded in Unintentional Shootings  A child was injured after they shot themself in Center Point, Alabama. The child was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No other information was reported. Jacob Wheatley, age 31, unintentionally shot himself during a confrontation with another man over the use of a basketball court in Austin, Texas. Caught …

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Adult Arrested Adult Death Juvenile Arrested North Carolina Ohio Ongoing Investigation Texas by Gary Klein

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Three Accidental Gun Deaths A San Angelo, Texas man playacting with his friend’s loaded Radical Arms AR-15 rifle, which he believed was unloaded because the magazine was removed, accidentally shot and killed a relative. According to the report, Benjamin Ibarra was “conducting a fake ‘sweep’ … of the house after the thought-to-be unloaded rifle was …

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Adult Arrested Adult Death Adult Injury Child Injury (18 and Under) Minnesota Mississippi Ongoing Investigation Tennessee by Gary Klein

MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2023

A Nine-year-old and Two Women are Victims in Gun Accidents A 9-year-old Brooklyn Park, Minnesota boy is expected to survive after he was shot in the head by his younger brother. The victim’s 7-year-old brother found a loaded handgun in their home and was handling the weapon when it discharged, according to police. There is …

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Adult Arrested Adult Death Adult Injury Arizona California Child Death (18 and Under) Child Injury (18 and Under) Child Under 18 (as Shooter) Georgia Illinois Michigan No Charges Filed Ongoing Investigation Texas by Gary Klein

SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2023

January 1, 2023 does not bode well for gun safety in the New Year because there were too many gun accidents to meaningfully consider, including many that appear to have resulted from celebratory gunfire. Among the reported incidents: In Van Buren County, Michigan, 62-year-old Christopher Toppenberg was charged with murder Wednesday in connection with the …

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Adult Injury Child Injury (18 and Under) Georgia No Charges Filed North Carolina Tennessee by Gary Klein

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2020

Three guns were accidentally fired today.  Three injuries resulted.  In Thomasville, Georgia, a man was moving his friend’s AR-15 rifle at the request of his friend’s grandmother, without knowing that the gun was loaded, when it inadvertently fired.  A child was injured.  There is no report on the victim’s condition. In Knightdale, North Carolina, a …

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