10 year old Utah boy dies after accidental gun discharge

There has been another accidental shooting of a child. This time it was a 10 year old in Utah who was playing in a garage with other kids when they found a gun. He died of his gunshot injuries. From the article:

A 10-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the chest Tuesday afternoon at a Miramar Ranch condominium complex while playing in a garage that a resident described as a “clubhouse” for kids in the close-knit neighborhood.

The shooting was reported about 4:15 p.m., and the boy died shortly afterward at Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego police homicide Lt. Jorge Duran said.

The boy had been playing in the garage with a 9-year-old girl who lives in the condo, Duran said. Her 14-year-old brother was in charge of them and there were no adults home at the time, police said.

A garage-door repairman who identified himself only as Mark said he was working outside at a neighboring condo, on Ivy Hill Drive near Scripps Poway Parkway, when he heard a single gunshot and a girl screaming. He rushed to the garage just feet away.

He saw the injured boy and called 911. A dispatcher instructed him on how to perform CPR, and he began chest compressions, he said.

The boy’s mother and father came running from their condo, several doors down. He said the father cradled his son’s head as CPR continued. A police officer arrived moments later, and she took over CPR until paramedics arrived, he said.

Neighbor Mike Mee also rushed to the scene. He had been outside washing his trash cans when he heard a pop, not knowing at first it was a gunshot. He said the boy was on the garage floor in the fetal position and was not moving. The girl was “crying and very upset,” he said.

Police found a 9 mm semi-automatic gun at the scene, police Acting Capt. Joseph Ramos said. There was a couch in the garage, along with boxes and clothing, Ramos said.

Mee said he saw the gun on the couch.

Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult.

17 year old Tennessee teen dies after being shot in head outside of gas station

A BP gas station was the scene of a shooting last week-end where a 17 year old teen was shot in the head and later died of his injuries:

Brownsville Police say more than 20 shots pierced the darkness on Norris Street in Brownsville, Friday night. Neighbors say they ran inside to avoid the gun fire that left one seventeen year old with critically wounded. 

Monica West lives on Norris Street and heard the gun shots. 

"We thought it was a fire cracker, but it was a gun going off. We couldn't tell what direction it was coming from so we just stayed in the house last night till it was over with," she said.

Brownsville Police said around 9:15 P.M. they received reports of shots being fired. A few minutes later they received an emergency call from a BP gas station saying a male victim had been shot in the head. 

Lt. Chuck Willis says the shooting happened on Norris street and why the teenagers drove from the scene of the crime about a tenth of a mile to the nearby gas station is still under investigation.

Lt. Willis says after questioning the seventeen year old driver of the car he was taken into custody. He is currently being held at a Shelby County Juvenile Detention Center. 

"The juvenile that's in custody now was charged with reckless endangerment and possession of a hand gun," Willis said. 

Willis says Brownsville Police worked both the gas station and Norris Street crime scenes until around 5:00 A.M. He believes more shooters may have been involved because more than twenty shots were fired. 

"I think it's more sad than anything, maybe not surprising but saddening. These are two individuals who haven't even started their lives yet," he said. 

Both the teen arrested as well as the gun shot victim are seventeen and from Hardeman County. The victim was airlifted to the Med in Memphis and died over the weekend

"We just gotta pray for these kids and just pray everything will be alright because we got way to many young folk dying on the streets now," neighbor Monica West said. 

Brownsville Police say they are still investigating what the teenagers were doing in the city. 

"This violent act may end one life and will definitely or possibly end another for the rest of his life in prison," Lt. Willis said.

Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult.

Missouri 14 year old shot outside of a house party

A 14 year old St. Louis area teen was shot and injured outside of a house party last week:

A teenager was shot outside a north St Louis County home Thursday night.

Police say they responded to the residence in the 10,500 block of Renfrew Drive around 10:30 p.m. and found a large party taking place.

Investigators were called because of someone armed with a weapon at the home.  The unidentified 14 year old victim was shot in the hip according to police and taken to the hospital.

Witnesses told officers the attack occurred outside the home but had not information on who the shooter was.  A motive for the attack was unclear.

The victim is reported to be a resident in the same neighborhood where the party was underway.  He is expected to survive.

Unidentified Philadelphia teen found shot dead on sidewalk

A teen-ager was found dead on a Philadelphia neighborhood sidewalk last week-end. His exact age and name are unknown:

Police were called to Arrott Street near Penn, about a block from the Margaret-Orthodox El station, at 9:43 p.m. and found the victim lying on the sidewalk bleeding from at least one gunshot wound to the torso, Chief Inspector Scott Small said. Medics pronounced him dead there at 9:51 p.m.

Police said the victim appeared to be very young and estimated that he was between 15 and 19 years old. He remained a John Doe around 10:30 p.m., and cops were unsure who shot him or why. Small said he had a bag with him and an iPod with headphones when he was found.

New Mexico girl, 8, shot and killed while sitting in a car

An 8 year old girl was driving in a car outside of a New Mexico community center when someone shot at the car. She died later. From an article:

Police say an 8-year-old Albuquerque girl has been killed a day before her birthday following a shooting near an Albuquerque community center.

KOB-TV reports (http://bit.ly/119p5FN) that Albuquerque police said that Sunni Rae Reza was shot Friday as a man, the girl and the girl's father were driving near the Alamosa Community Center. That when police say someone began shooting at the vehicle.

It's unclear the motive for the shooting.

Police say the man driving the car dropped off Reza at the fire station down the road and left.

According to authorities, Reza was transported to a nearby hospital where she later died.

Police say the suspects in the case were three or four men — all dressed in black.

No arrests have been made.

11 year old New York girl left paralyzed after struck by stray bullet

An 11 year old girl was shot in New York by a stray bullet and left paralyzed. The shooter was a 17 year old boy. From an article:

"A Brooklyn teen has been charged in the shooting of an 11-year-old girl that

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could have left her paralyzed.

Cops said Kane Cooper, 17, was apprehended after being observed on surveillance video following the Friday night shooting that struck Taylonni Mazyck.

Mazyck was hit in the neck as she ran to escape the hail of bullets. She fell to the ground after being struck.

It may be the last move she will ever make.

Taylonni was outside her Gates Ave. home in Bedford-Stuyvesant with her mother and 7-month-old niece about 8:30 p.m. when Cooper allegedly started shooting and hit her with a blast that may have left her paralyzed, police and shattered family members said.

Cooper has been charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and criminal use of a firearm.

“We heard shots,” said Taylonni’s mother, Priscilla Samuel, 46. “They came out of nowhere. We tried to run, but my daughter Tu-Tu fell down.”

Samuel ran over to grab Taylonni and saw the young girl was bleeding.

“She was calling out to me, ‘Mommy, Mommy,’” she said. “I saw the bullet in my baby’s face and I went crazy. Everything I learned as a nurse’s tech went out the window.”

Paramedics rushed Taylonni to Kings County Hospital, where doctors told Samuel her daughter may be paralyzed from the neck down. The bullet, doctors explained, is lodged in a vertebra of her neck.

Taylonni’s sister Latavia Fields, 26, said at the hospital that her family had just moved to Gates Ave., near Throop Ave. They thought the neighborhood was safe because an NYPD “Sky Watch” tower, which takes photos and video for blocks in every direction, stands across the street. An NYPD spokesman could not confirm Friday whether a Sky Watch tower is located near the shooting scene.

“There were cops on the block all day long,” Fields claimed. “What were they doing?”

“We were in the right place at the wrong time,” Fields said. “Why can’t we be out in front of our own home enjoying the breeze? There is no justice when this can happen to an 11-year-old girl.”"

Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult.

2 year old girl injured in Texas

A 2 year old Texas girl was shot in her home and was taken to a hospital where she is expected to live:

A 2-year-old girl was airlifted to a Temple hospital after she was shot in a north Killeen home Friday morning.

Police and paramedics were called to the home in the 1700 block of North 24th Street at 11:02 a.m. to respond to reports of a shooting. According to police, the child was inside the home with her mother and another child, who was not injured, at the time of the incident.

The mother contacted 911 and attended to the child until paramedics arrived and took over, according to a news release from the Killeen Police Department.

Killeen police spokeswoman Ofelia Miramontez said the circumstances of the shooting are under investigation, but she confirmed that the weapon was a handgun.

The girl was airlifted to the McLane Children’s Hospital Scott & White in Temple. Late Friday afternoon, the girl was in surgery and listed in stable condition, according to police.