Tragedy in the US: 8-year-old plays with his father’s pistol and kills a one-year-old

Playing with his father’s pistol, eight-year-old boy killed a one year old baby and injured another child two years at the weekend in Florida – an incident tragically common in the US.

The father, the Roderick Randall45 years old, was arrested and he was charged with negligence resulting in homicide, illegal possession of firearms and removal of evidence from a crime scene, said Chip Simmons, Sheriff of Escampia County.

The tragedy unfolded in a motel where the forty-year-old with a heavy criminal record had gone to find his partner. He went with his son. She with her twin children, two years old, and her one-year-old daughter.

At one point, he left the room and leave the gun “in a cupboard”, Sheriff Simmons explained during a press conference. Knowing where he was hiding, “his son took it and started playing with it.”

“He shot and killed a one-year-old baby. “After it penetrated, the bullet injured one of the twins, but he is expected to survive,” the sheriff added, emphasizing that the mother of the victims was sleeping.

When the father returned, he removed the weapon and substances from the room, probably drugsbefore the police arrive.

The death of the little girl adds to the horrific series of similar accidents in the country.

“Every year, hundreds of children in the United States find themselves unloaded with weapons that have not been safely stored in lockers, nightstands, backpacks, bags, or just abandoned,” she said in a recent report. Everytown For Gun Safety government organization.

The NGO, which fights mainly to tighten control of the firearms market, estimates that accidents when guns fall into the hands of children who “shoot unintentionally” cost the lives of some 350 Americans a year on average.

More widely, firearms cause some 40,000 deaths a year in the United States, including suicides, according to Gun Violence.

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