11-05-2014, 02:36 PM
That shooting in Lorain, Ohio was one of three known shootings by a toddler in a 7-day period. All made possible by negligent adults with loaded guns in the home.
-Last Monday at around 9:30 p.m., two 3-year-olds were playing with a shotgun in a Baltimore home. Police told the Sun that the two kids found the gun in one of their bedrooms. The gun went off and hit one of the children, a boy, in the lower leg. He was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition as of Monday night.
-Just two days prior, a 3-year-old girl in Lorain, Ohio was listed in critical condition after her 4-year-old brother shot her in the head. The siblings were playing when the boy found a .40 caliber handgun. Police said the boy told them multiple times he was sorry.
-On October 27, Patrick Sanders, 20, was sleeping on the couch at a Houston-area apartment when his loaded pistol slipped out of his pants and a 3-year-old boy in the home picked it up. Sanders was shot in the face as he tried to get the gun away from the boy and it accidentally went off.
-Last Monday at around 9:30 p.m., two 3-year-olds were playing with a shotgun in a Baltimore home. Police told the Sun that the two kids found the gun in one of their bedrooms. The gun went off and hit one of the children, a boy, in the lower leg. He was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition as of Monday night.
-Just two days prior, a 3-year-old girl in Lorain, Ohio was listed in critical condition after her 4-year-old brother shot her in the head. The siblings were playing when the boy found a .40 caliber handgun. Police said the boy told them multiple times he was sorry.
-On October 27, Patrick Sanders, 20, was sleeping on the couch at a Houston-area apartment when his loaded pistol slipped out of his pants and a 3-year-old boy in the home picked it up. Sanders was shot in the face as he tried to get the gun away from the boy and it accidentally went off.