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Saturday, October 5
3-year-old girl dies at Christmas after accidentally shooting herself in North Carolina
Aylee Gordon, just 3 years old , no managed to survive the accidentally shot during Christmas in the rural community of Edneyville.
The little girl was hospitalized since Saturday afternoon. So, the minor’s father, Tim Gordon – a retired captain with the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office – called the emergency services.
The audio indicates that, for the holidays, the family received a visitor who accidentally left a gun in his car. “The girl took it and shot herself,” he said.
🇺🇲Aylee Gordon, age three, Dies after accidentally shooting herself on Christmas Day with a guest’s gun, a visitor accidentally left her gun in the car, daughter of a retired captain from the Henderson County Sheriff’s office, caught with dire consequences pic.twitter.com/qJvltnVB3k
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So the man who retired in 2016, took the girl to the fire station, because she had difficulties with her cell phone signal, from where the little girl was taken to a hospital.
Will be the local prosecutor’s office or North Carolina Department of Investigation on that determines if criminal charges are established and against whom , reports Telemundo.
The Archive of Gun Violence indicates that this year, 1, 31 under 11 years died or were injured by firearms , a figure that exceeds that of 2020, what happened with 999. A report published by the Children’s Defense Fund indicates that gun violence was the main cause of death in minors under 19 years during 2019.
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