Texas toddler finds loaded gun and shoots himself in face – Crime Online

A Texas toddler has died after he found a loaded gun in his teenage brother’s room just after midnight Tuesday morning and shot himself in the face with it.

Police believe 2-year-old Rio Carrington was alone in his brother’s room, KXAS reported, but several other children and the boy’s mother were in other parts of the home.

“A child is dead and a mother basically has to bury her baby because the child found a gun and harmed himself,” the Arlington police sergeant said. Courtney White.

Investigators have not yet released the caliber of the gun used and are still working to determine if the gun was legally obtained, according to KDFW. They also didn’t say if other guns were found in the home, and didn’t reveal the age of the teenager who allegedly owned the gun. You have confirmed that he is a minor.

“Just an overall bad situation, for lack of a better term,” White said. “So we’re standing up and trying to say to the public please lock up your handguns, they can fall into the wrong hands or into the hands of a child.”

Police said three other children were inside the home in addition to the adults, WFAA reported.

Cook Children’s Health System told the station there had been 247 gun injuries since 2018, 22 of which were fatal. Over the past year, the hospital said it saw 45 such injuries, eight of which were fatal.

In this case, no charges were brought.

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[Featured image: Rio Carrington/Facebook]