Three-year-old Kills Self With Dropped Gun In New Orleans, Louisiana, three-year-old Rudy Ratliff, fatally shot himself after he found a loaded gun that had fallen from the waistband of 47-year-old Tatisha Refuge. Rudy and his mother were visiting Refuge, who the boy’s mother saw as an adopted grandmother to her children. “She kind of raised …
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Adult Arrested Adult Injury Child Injury (18 and Under) Child Under 18 (as Shooter) Delaware Illinois Law Enforcement Action (At Time of Report) Ongoing Investigation
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2024
Two People Shot During Police Stop, and Toddler Fires Unsecured Gun Injuring One An investigatory police stop in Chicago, Illinois, resulted in a police officer and 16-year-old Marcus Gracey sustaining gunshot wounds from an unintentional discharge of a gun in Gracey’s possession. Officers noticed a gun in Gracey’s waistband while he was walking along a …
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024
One Dead, Two Wounded in Gun Accidents In Athens, Georgia, 32-year-old Casey Roy Hobbs was found dead in a pickup truck from what police say appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. There was a 9mm pistol on the floorboard of the truck, and police speculate that the gun was in Hobbs’s waistband when it …
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2023
Eight-year-old Child is Shot and Killed with Unsecured Gun, and Four Other People are Hurt in Separate Unintentional Shootings A group of children found a loaded, unsecured gun in a home in Detroit, Michigan. It’s unclear what exactly happened once it was found, but the gun went off killing an eight-year-old. An adult has been …
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2023
No Charges to be Filed After 10-year-old Dies in Gun Accident The sheriff in Calhoun County, Mississippi announced that no charges will be filed after Oaklee Brasher, a 10-year-old boy, died in an accidental shooting today. No other information about the circumstances of the incident have been released. Four other shootings resulting in injuries …
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2023 – Unintentional Shootings Involving Two Children and Two Adults
In Goldsboro, North Carolina, a seven-year-old child was shot by an eight-year-old relative, but is expected to recover. There has been no report about how the children got the gun. Michael Howard-Owens of Chicago, Illinois, was in bed with his girlfriend and her three-year old son, when his gun, which was in his waistband, accidentally …
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2022
Zyon Williams, 19, of Clovis, New Mexico told police he was walking with two of his friends with his grandmother’s 9mm XD pistol tucked into the waistband of his pants. He was playing with the pistol as he approached the building where Shammiel Kirven, age 17, was standing and he pointed it at her. The gun …
SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2022
Witnesses to a Duluth, Minnesota bar fight and surveillance video confirms “that two men were fighting two other men when a gun fell out of a man’s waistband. When a bystander attempted to grab the gun, it fired and the victim was shot in the foot.” The shooting remains under investigation but police say “there …