A 25-year-old man died in a tragic accident in the US state of Georgia when a young boy was shot. The two-year-old had accidentally got his hands on the gun in the apartment, pulled the trigger and seriously injured his father with a shot from the pistol. This is reported by “NBC News”.
The rescue workers were immediately called to the 25-year-old’s house, and he later succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The incident occurred in early December, but the Savannah Police Department has only just made the case public.
In a statement on Tuesday, the police said: “The shot was released accidentally, everything indicates that the two-year-old boy accidentally pulled the trigger,” the report said. The police station did not provide any information on the relationship between the child and the man killed.
USA: 330 incidents involving children and small arms
“As someone who has children of my own, I can’t imagine what the family is going through right now. And I don’t want to imagine what’s waiting for them in the years to come, ”said Roy Minter, chief of the Savannah Police Department.
“We want to expressly point out to parents again that such accidents happen, even if very rarely. Please make sure that weapons are stored away from children and that their families are safe, ”Minter said.
In the USA, according to official figures, children had fired 330 guns in 2021, 135 people died as a result of the accidents. (shh)
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