8-year-old Utah boy dies after shooting himself in car while mother was inside store
8-year-old Utah boy dies after shooting himself in car while mother was inside store
The shooting appeared to be "unintentional and self-inflicted," police said in a statement.
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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Utah does not have any laws to penalize someone for failing to secure an unattended firearm and leaving it accessible to an unsupervised minor, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The state also does not require unattended firearms to be stored in a certain way or require a locking device to be sold with a firearm.
thanks to the "gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens!" crowd
The problem is not enough good 8 year olds with guns.
Wombs aren't sending their best
People are saying the seven year old has mental health issues.
That's what happens when a bullet goes through your brain
Utah wombs are trying to beat the odds though. So they've got that going for them. /s
Imagine being held responsible for what your firearms do if you don't secure them. We can't have that, I need my weapon to be always ready in case my kid wants to shoot themselves and die!