2023-06-01 20:58:30
This drama is a new illustration of the very heavy price paid by the United States to the dissemination of firearms. The young child, aged 4 according to the press, was accidentally killed on Wednesday by another child with a gun in the suburbs of Chicago, according to a statement sent Thursday by the police to AFP.
The tragedy unfolded around 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday, with officers discovering that a child had been “accidentally shot by another child from the same household”, according to the statement. According to the newspaper Chicago Sun-Timesthe child who died was a 4-year-old girl.
Leading cause of death
The father of the fatally injured girl, the legal owner of the handgun used and who called for help, told investigators that the pistol was stored high up in a closet, police said. the locality of River Grove, in the western suburbs of Chicago (Illinois, north).
This kind of tragedy is not uncommon. Each year, 19,000 children are killed or injured by firearms, according to the association Everytown for Gun Safety, which campaigns for more gun restrictions. In 2020, weapons became the leading cause of death among young people aged 1 to 19, with 4,368 deaths, ahead of car accidents and overdoses, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
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