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Related: About this forumWoman, 26, driving down Milwaukee highway is shot dead by child in backseat
Source: New York Daily News
Woman, 26, driving down Milwaukee highway is shot dead by child in backseat
BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 6:03 PM
A 26-year-old woman driving down a Milwaukee highway was shot and killed by a child in the backseat who got his or her hands on a gun, police said.
The unidentified woman was pronounced dead on scene after deputies got the call of a crash around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday on Highway 175 southbound near Vliet Street, the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office said in a statement.
Initial witness accounts indicate that a child in the back seat of the vehicle got ahold of a gun and discharged the firearm, sending a single bullet into the drivers back, the department said in a statement. The MCSO investigation into the death is on-going.
Its unclear how old the child is or how he or she got ahold of the gun.
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BY SASHA GOLDSTEIN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 6:03 PM
A 26-year-old woman driving down a Milwaukee highway was shot and killed by a child in the backseat who got his or her hands on a gun, police said.
The unidentified woman was pronounced dead on scene after deputies got the call of a crash around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday on Highway 175 southbound near Vliet Street, the Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office said in a statement.
Initial witness accounts indicate that a child in the back seat of the vehicle got ahold of a gun and discharged the firearm, sending a single bullet into the drivers back, the department said in a statement. The MCSO investigation into the death is on-going.
Its unclear how old the child is or how he or she got ahold of the gun.
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Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-driving-milwaukee-road-shot-dead-child-backseat-article-1.2615430
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Woman, 26, driving down Milwaukee highway is shot dead by child in backseat (Original Post)
Eugene
Apr 2016
OP
I bet purse carry is to blame. On your person or lock it up, guns can be dangerous
ileus
Apr 2016
#1
It seems like I've read this story several times over the last couple of years.
Cassiopeia
Apr 2016
#2
Total number of under 15 yoa killed in gun accidents is well below 100/a yr....
Eleanors38
Apr 2016
#4
ileus
(15,396 posts)1. I bet purse carry is to blame. On your person or lock it up, guns can be dangerous
in the wrong hands.
Safety First.
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)2. It seems like I've read this story several times over the last couple of years.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)4. Total number of under 15 yoa killed in gun accidents is well below 100/a yr....
MSM is MUCH MORE LIKELY to publicize kids killed by guns than by
Electrocution
Falls
Drowning
Poisoning
etc.
...all of which kill far more children. So, yes, you will hear this "several times over the last couple of years."
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)5. Um, this was an adult killed by her child.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)6. Indeed. I wonder how many incidents of these tragedies there are?
lastlib
(24,794 posts)3. If only the poor woman had had a gun..........
(sez Wayne LaPeeError)