3-year-old shots self with gun, Adults though was toyTop Stories

June 21, 2017 13:09
3-year-old shots self with gun, Adults though was toy

According a data released from 2012 to 2014 records, shows that on average, about 5,790 children in the nation receive medical treatment in an emergency room each year for a gun related injury. Of those about 21% are unintentional.

From 2012 to 2014, about 1,297 children have died from a gun related injury annually.

In a recent incident, a 3-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself in Clinton Township on Tuesday as people standing nearby assumed the gun was a toy.

Police tape surrounded little bicycles where little here little children played around 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon at the Newport Apartments.

Police said that children were playing with what they though was a toy gun until it was triggered, killing Cameron Dillard.

Witness Shalanda Johnson said that she watched Dillard die.

"I watched him hug the little boy and they hit the ground. We were laughing about it. Literally not even three minutes later it was bang -- that's how quick it was," said Johnson.

Witnesses said that they were standing just feet away talking to Cameron's mother with a group of children ages 2 through 9 playing nearby.

They said that what the children could not know and what the adults did know, is the one of their gun toys was all too real.

"They thought it was a toy gun. The kids thought it was a toy gun and was passing it around. My daughter says as soon as she handed it to him, he pulled the trigger and shot himself," Johnson said.

Witnesses say an adult at the apartment complex had unknowingly dropped the gun, which couldn't be immediately located following the shooting.

"They thought the gun was a toy gun but in reality the gun was a real gun and it was loaded," said Police Chief Fred Posavetz. "The little boy actually had shot himself in the side."

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