Reports of Unintended Gun Violence Collected from Media Reports Across the United States
Three Unintended Shootings on Halloween Dusty Clausen, of Payette, Idaho, who is the father of two young children, including one who is three months old, is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself on Halloween. While removing a loaded rifle from a gun safe inside his home, the trigger snagged on other firearms in the …
Group of Friends Playing with Gun; 16-year-old is Killed In an Indianapolis, Indiana home, 16-year-old Nathaniel Labissiere was unintentionally shot and killed by his friend, 18-year-old Jakari Bibbs. The two teens and another friend were playing around with a .22 caliber Glock 44 while another person took photos. During the investigation, Bibbs told detectives he …
Roommates Playing with Guns Result in One Man’s Death In a St. Petersburg, Florida home, Kevin Bishop, age 50, was accidentally shot and killed. Bishop and his roommate, 57-year-old William Tompkins, were drinking alcohol and looking over the guns that Bishop owned and both believed to be unloaded. The men were pointing the guns at …
Teen Unintentionally Shot by Friend with Stolen Glock In Pinellas Park, Florida, a 13-year-old boy was taken to the hospital in stable condition after being accidentally shot by his friend while they played video games in the friend’s home. The suspect, also 13, had stolen a loaded Glock 44 .22 caliber handgun from a room …
11-year-old Girl Allegedly Shot and Killed by Younger Brother In Miami, Florida, 11-year-old Taliyah Clarke was with her nine-year-old brother in their bedroom, when she suffered a gunshot wound to her chest, and later died at the hospital. Detectives found a .40 caliber silver casing on the floor of the children’s room near a dog …
Unintentional Shootings Injure Two Teens In Hesperia, Michigan, an 18-year-old is in fair condition at the hospital after being unintentionally shot in the abdomen by a 17-year-old while they were target shooting. And in McAllen, Texas, a 15-year-old was hospitalized after being accidentally shot in the head while playing video games with three other teens. …
Three People Wounded in Accidental Shootings In a farm field in Stone Creek, Ohio, a 12-year-old boy was wounded when a rifle unintentionally discharged after falling off the ATV he was riding. The .22 caliber rimfire bolt-action single-shot rifle, fired a round into the boy’s chest after hitting the ground. He was airlifted to the hospital for …
Toddler Kills Self After Finding Loaded Glock In a home in Flint, Michigan, 2-year-old Cortez Legend Guy found a loaded Glock .40-caliber handgun at home and fatally shot himself in the head. Responding police found the mortally wounded toddler and a bloody trail that led them to the gun used. The toddler was pronounced dead …
4-year-old Kills Self with Father’s Glock; 13-year-old Accidentally Shot and Killed While Playing with Both Nerf and Real Gun In a home in Memphis, Tennessee, a 4-year-old found his father’s loaded Glock 10mm handgun and fatally shot himself in the head. The boy’s father, Vincent Gilliams, told police the gun was in his pants pocket …
Man Killed While Filming Friend Playing with Gun In West Jordan, Utah, Dylan Douglas Miller-Mettome, 27, was accidentally shot and killed by his best friend, 29-year-old Anthony Sanchez. Miller-Mettome had started to record Sanchez on his phone, when Sanchez “pulled his gun out to be funny, not knowing it was loaded,” pointed it at Miller-Mettome, …
Woman Killed, and Three Injured in Unintentional Shootings In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman was shot in a vehicle and died. Police say a man and a child were also in the car, and that the child accidentally shot the woman. The woman was a local schoolteacher. The school issued a statement saying they are “deeply …
Woman Killed by Stray Bullet, and Two Teens Injured in Gun Accidents Cynthia Brown, 40, suffered severe head trauma after being shot by a bullet that came from a neighboring apartment in Knoxville, Tennessee. She was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police questioned the person they suspect fired the gun, and the district attorney’s office …
5-year-old Kills Self With Father’s Loaded Glock Found Under Pillow Travell Daniels, 29, was watching his 5-year-old son for the weekend in a home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Daniels laid the child down for a nap in his bedroom and went downstairs to watch television. Shortly after, he heard a loud bang and returned to …
Girl Injured When Loaded Glock Found in Car’s Center Console Accidentally Fires In a car parked at a gas station in West Palm Beach, Florida, a 10-year-old boy found a loaded gun and unintentionally shot an 8-year-old girl in the face. Four children (ages 1–10) had been left in the car when the mother went …
3-year-old and Two Deputies are Wounded in Unintentional Shootings A 3-year-old in Richmond, Virginia, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound that is not life-threatening. Few details reported, but police believe this was an accidental shooting and are currently not looking for suspects, though they will continue to investigate. At an outdoor gun range in Lemoore, …
Stray Bullets Injure Three and Man Accidentally Shoots Himself with Friend’s Glock While sitting at home in Rochester, New York, a 16-year-old girl was struck by a stray bullet. Police responded to a call about a person shot, and found a 42-year-old man inside a vehicle with at least one gunshot wound. During their investigation, …
Four-year-old Girl Finds Loaded Glock and Accidentally Shoots Herself in the Head On Memorial Day, a four-year-old Grovetown, Georgia girl is hospitalized in critical condition after she accidentally shot herself in the head. Her father, 24-year-old Davion Daniels, left a loaded 9mm Glock on the floor when he went downstairs to take a phone call. …
Toddler Finds Loaded Glock, Shoots and Kills Himself Kiaire Marquis McCoy, a two-year-old from Kentwood, Michigan, found a loaded gun and shot and killed himself. His mother’s boyfriend, Markus Nevills Jr., 22, was sitting on a couch in the apartment and had tucked his Glock 22, a .40 caliber handgun, between a couch seat cushion …