Wisconsin 3-year-old dies after accidentally shooting himself: Police

A 3-year-old in Milwaukee died after he by accident shot himself on Friday morning, police stated.

The Milwaukee Police Division stated {that a} 28-year-old lady has been arrested in reference to the incident, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The lady’s relationship to the boy has not been disclosed.

The boy was taken to a hospital, the place he died, at about 5 a.m., WMTV reported.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson posted in regards to the incident on Twitter on Friday morning.

“I’m disturbed by all gun deaths in Milwaukee, however when the sufferer is a 3-yr-old, I’m horrified. There are too many weapons within the fingers of people that mustn’t have them. All weapons should be locked and secured in a house,” the mayor stated.

Newsweek reached out to the Milwaukee Police Division for remark.

In response to the Gun Violence Archive, 836 kids and youngsters have been killed, and a pair of,100 kids and youngsters injured, on account of gun violence in 2022.

In in April in Fort Collins, Colorado, a mom was charged after her son by accident shot and killed himself. Police stated they responded to a house and located the boy, Roy Summers, with a gunshot wound and took him to a hospital the place he later died.

In a information launch, police stated the mom “left the unsecured weapon laying in an space ceaselessly accessed by her kids. A number of hours later, Roy picked up the gun and by accident shot himself.”

In a taking pictures in Akron, Ohio, in March, a 10-year-old boy was fatally shot after one other baby by accident fired a gun. In response to police, three different kids and an grownup residents of the home have been seen leaving earlier than officers arrived.

“Our assumption is he stumbled upon the weapon, clearly unsecured, after which the unspeakable occurred,” Akron Police Lieutenant Michael Miller instructed information station WJW. “It will seem, primarily based on what we’ve got gathered to this point, that this was a really unintentional, tragic incident.”

Miller stated police believed the weapon belonged to a resident of the house who wasn’t there when the kid was shot.

In April, a father was charged after an 8-year-old by accident shot and killed his brother in Georgia. Information station WXIA reported that the youngsters have been in a bed room when the 8-year-old discovered his father’s weapon and fired it. The boys’ father and uncle have been allegedly downstairs watching TV when the incident occurred.