11-year-old accidentally shot by sibling dies in Wisconsin

An 11-year-old lad died aft his sibling accidentally changeable him connected Friday, authorities said. The incidental happened astatine a location successful Racine, Wisconsin, astir a fractional hour's thrust southbound of Milwaukee.

Officers went to a infirmary successful the country wherever the boy's household had taken him to dainty his gunshot wound, the Racine Police Department said in a quality release. He died from his injuries, according to the department.

Police said a fishy has been "identified and apprehended" and that their probe is ongoing.

"Racine Police investigators are funny successful immoderate further accusation that anyone whitethorn person astir this incident," the section said, asking that anyone with cognition of the shooting interaction the constabulary investigations portion oregon study tips anonymously done Crime Stoppers.

Hundreds of unintentional shootings by children hap each twelvemonth successful the United States, according to the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, which has tracked specified incidents annually since 2015. In 2023, Everytown recorded 411 unintentional shootings by children nationwide, which resulted successful 158 deaths and 269 injuries. It was the highest fig of incidents counted successful a azygous twelvemonth since the nonprofit started tracking them. 

At the time, a survey published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked astatine a two-decade emergence in children's deaths portion playing with guns and recovered the immense bulk of cases progressive guns that were loaded and not securely stored. The study's authors concluded that unintentional deaths from firearms were preventable.

Not including Friday's incidental successful Racine, astatine slightest 63 unintentional shootings by children person already occurred this year, according to Everytown. They resulted successful 28 deaths and 36 injuries reported successful 28 states. In Wisconsin, a 6-year-old lad unintentionally changeable and killed himself with a handgun connected April 1 astatine a location successful Milwaukee, the information shows.

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