An 8-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself with a loaded gun left in a car while his mother was inside an Utah convenience store, police said.
The boy was alone in the car about 7:40 p.m. Monday in Lehi — a city about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City — when he shot himself in the head, Jeanteil Livingston with the Lehi City Police Department confirmed to CBS News. The incident occurred in a vehicle located in the parking lot of a Maverick gas station, police said.
The boy was taken to a local hospital in extremely critical condition. He was later airlifted to a hospital up north and died Tuesday morning, police said.
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I can’t imagine leaving a loaded weapon unsecured because: I’m not an idiot.
I have them secured where they belong in a locked gun safe with the ammo in a different location secured in its own safe. It’s not hard.
Now, this mom gets to enjoy the horror of seeing her sons brains blown out in the back of her car played over and over and over in her mind. Stupid fuck.
Unless idiots are allowed to keep fully loaded weapons within easy reach of children the government will start throwing us into internment camps.
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“Oh shit, Marvin shot himself.”
I’m not an idiot. Many people aren’t, but this is Utah. …
Clearly there’s no realistic way to prevent things like this from continuing to happen. Fuck I love America.
