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n2doc

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Tue Jan 5, 2016, 02:05 AM Jan 2016

Police: Child accidentally shoots 2-year-old

A 2-year-old LaGrange girl was at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston hospital Monday night after another youngster accidentally shot her.

The shooting occurred just after 4 p.m. in an apartment at the Wood Glen Apartments, LaGrange police investigators said. Emergency workers gave quick surgical care to the girl’s torso before loading her on a helicopter that took her to the hospital.

Three other children — ages 10, 3 and 1 — also were in the apartment, investigators determined. With them were two adults: the tenant and her friend, the wounded child’s mother.

One of the children found a handgun, fired it and hit the 2-year-old, police said. Officers recovered the weapon inside the apartment.

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Police: Child accidentally shoots 2-year-old (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2016 OP
No. No. Criminally negligent adult left gun unsecured where child found & discharged it . . . Journeyman Jan 2016 #1
Not an accident when a child finds a loaded weapon and uses it. mountain grammy Jan 2016 #2

Journeyman

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1. No. No. Criminally negligent adult left gun unsecured where child found & discharged it . . .
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 03:38 AM
Jan 2016

a two-year-old died because of this adult's unconscionably criminal negligence.

That's the true lede for this story . . .

The balance of the tale should be a recounting of the adult being handcuffed and whisked away to jail, there to await arraignment for their criminal behavior.

On edit: There was nothing accidental about any of this. Failure to secure a firearm is not an accident, it is a willful rejection of proper behavior.

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