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Two-year-old boy dies after shooting himself in head

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A two-year-old boy in the US southern state of Texas has died after he was able to get his hands on his father’s handgun, and shot himself in the head.

The shooting took place at around 8:46 p.m. local time on Wednesday (0246 GMT on Thursday) in Corsicana.

Police said the young victim, identified as Kinsler Allen Davis, found the gun and fired it while his 35-year-old father was looking in a closet in the same bedroom.

The boy was transported initially to Navarro Regional Hospital, before medics put him on a life flight to Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, where he was pronounced dead.

The incident is still under investigation. The event is the latest shooting incident in the United States involving children.

It came a day after a three-year-old boy shot and killed himself after finding a gun in his uncle’s backpack in the city of Tampa Bay.

On May 4, a six-year-old girl was shot in the chest with a handgun by her teenage brother in Oakland Park.

On April 30, a 5-year-old Kentucky child fatally shot his 2-year-old sister in the chest while they were at home doing chores.

In early April, a 4-year-old New Jersey boy got a 22-caliber rifle from his family’s home and shot and killed his 6-year-old friend.

On December 14, 2012, twenty children and six adult victims were fatally shot by a gunman — who later killed himself — at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in the town of Newtown in the US state of Connecticut. Earlier in the day, the assailant killed his mother in another location.

Every year, more than 30,000 people are shot and killed in the United States.
The US averages 87 gun deaths each day as a function of gun violence, with an average of 183 injured, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the Centers for Disease Control.

The year 2012 was a record setting year for gun sales in the US.
However, calls for stricter gun control measures are growing louder, and the most recent nationwide polls show that the majority of US citizens support a ban on assault weapons.

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