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Reports of Unintended Gun Violence Collected from Media Reports Across the United States

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Adult Arrested Adult Death Delaware November 21, 2025November 26, 2025 by Jo Ellen Ackerman

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2025

Man Shot and Killed In an apartment in Dover, Delaware, a 59-year-old man was fatally shot by 48-year-old Kenneth Collins who mishandled a gun. The victim died from his wounds at the hospital. Officers recovered a 9mm handgun and a .380 gun from the apartment, and charged Collins with negligent homicide, possession of a firearm …

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  • TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020

    Michelle Ansley, a 40-year old Thomson, Georgia woman was accidentally shot by a family member who was cleaning his gun.  Ansley was shot in the leg and was taken to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead. 

    Police are investigating, but gun cleaning accidents are common, especially with certain guns that lack basic safety features like loaded chamber indicators, magazine safety disconnects, or external manual safeties.  Cleaning accidents also occur frequently with Glocks and certain other guns for which disassembly requires a trigger pull.

    UPDATE: On September 1, 2020, John Ansley, 41, gave himself up to officers on charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct.

    Sources:

    Steve Byerly, “Victim Identified in Fatal Thomson Shooting Blamed on Gun-cleaning Accident,” WRDW/WAGT (August 19, 2020).

    Jeremy Turnage, "Man Turns Himself in after Gun Cleaning Accident Ended in Fatal Shooting," WRDW/WAGT (September 2, 2020).

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