We have all been cooped up inside for so long, but now that we all can go outside again, without having to deal with your kids hands being cold because they won’t wear the mitts you brought them. “Every year, hundreds of children in the United States gain access to unsecured, loaded guns in closets and nightstand drawers, in backpacks and purses, or just left out,” said a recent report by Everytown For Gun Safety, a firearms control advocacy group.Īccording to the organization, unintentional shootings by minors have caused 879 deaths since 2015 and 114 this year.Hello Spring! It’s that time of year again where the weather gets warmer, the sun starts shining, the snow melts, you start hearing the birds in the morning, and there starts to be a trickle of kids playing outside.

In late September, a two-year-old boy accidentally killed himself in Texas after finding a loaded gun in a relative’s backpack. But she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter by paramedics.Ī trial date has not yet been set, according to a statement from District Attorney Dan Faggard.Īccidental shootings by children are not unheard of in the United States. Police officers arrived to discover Avery trying to revive his girlfriend in their apartment in Altamonte Springs, a city north of Orlando. Her baby is crying in the back,” according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.Īvery, who had been away during the incident, also contacted emergency services upon his return, begging them to “please hurry,” according to the paper.

In a phone call to emergency services, one of Lynn’s co-workers can be heard saying: “One of the girls passed out, she was bleeding. The boy’s 21-year-old mother, Shamaya Lynn, was shot in their home on August 11 with a single bullet, while in the middle of a Zoom meeting. Veondre Avery, 22, who was charged with manslaughter and failure to securely store a firearm, was taken into custody on Tuesday, police and a prosecutor said.Īvery had stored the gun - loaded and without the safety on - in a backpack themed with the children’s television series “Paw Patrol.” The father of a two-year-old child who fatally shot his mother in the head while she was on a Zoom meeting, has been arrested in Florida for failing to keep the gun out of the toddler’s reach.

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