A man is in custody after a 13-year-old girl was shot and killed as children were playing with a gun on Detroit's east side Tuesday, according to a Detroit Police spokesman.
The girl, whose age was reported incorrectly earlier because of incorrect information provided, was in a house with a 14-year-old boy who lived there and with her two younger brothers, Detroit Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Woody said today.
The boy's father, who has not been charged, was arrested on charges of being a felon in possession of a gun and on some traffic warrants, Woody said. It's unclear what the 34-year-old man's criminal history involved.
Police do not know precisely who had the handgun when it went off in the house in the 15800 block of Lappin Street about 4:30 p.m., Woody said.
"(Children in the house) were playing with the gun, and the gun went off," Woody said. "(The gun) was kept in an unsecured location inside the parents' bedroom."

LOWNDES COUNTY- A Lowndes County man is facing a murder charge after allegedly shooting his girlfriend's four-year-old son with a hunting rifle.
Patrick Chambers, 27, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon for his alleged role in the shooting death of four-year-old Brayden Barksdale, according to Lowndes County Chief Deputy Marc Miley. Chambers will officially be charged with murder and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon on Wednesday, Miley said. Miley did not know Chamber's prior felony conviction but said it stemmed from an out of state charge. Chambers is the boyfriend of Barksdale's mother, Amy Richardson, Miley said.

'I'm Sorry'

Mom Recounts Moment 5-Year-Old Shot and Killed Baby

 

A 9-month-old baby boy was shot dead in his playpen after his 5-year-old brother found a loaded revolver and fired the weapon, the sheriff in Missouri’s rural Nodaway County said.

DETROIT — A 4-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday 
in what police said was a tragic, avoidable accident.
The shooter was the boy's 4-year-old female cousin.
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Sgt. Michael Woody, a Detroit police spokesman, said the children were playing in the back bedroom of a home when the girl found a rifle — loaded and not locked in a case — underneath the bed.
He said the girl pointed the gun at her cousin and pulled the trigger, shooting him in the chest.

  
           

Veronica Rutledge, 29, was shot in the head and died instantly after her two-year-old son reached into her purse and got a hold of a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun during a shopping trip in Hayden, the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. The Walmart store manager stepped in after the 10:20 a.m. shooting and took the gun away from the child, officials said.
         

A young Oklahoma mom is dead after her 3-year-old accidentally shot her, KJRH reports. Christa Engles, a 26-year-old from Tulsa, was believed to be changing her 1-year-old daughter's diaper in her living room when police say her preschool son wandered in with a semi-automatic handgun and shot her in the head.

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