Paulding County child killed after accidentally shooting himself

PAULDING COUNTY, GA. - A three-year-old child is dead after accidentally shooting himself with a gun Tuesday morning.

According to the Paulding County Sheriff's Office, the boy shot himself in the chest shortly after 7 a.m. Deputies performed CPR and other life saving measures at the scene. The child was taken to Paulding Wellstar Hospital by Fire/EMS, where he was later pronounced dead.

Authorities are not sure who the gun belongs to.

The incident occurred off of Camp Circle in Dallas, Ga., which was where the child lived with his father, mother and younger twin sisters.

This is the second incident in as many months of a toddler accidentally shooting himself. In March, a two-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the abdomen after finding a gun in his mother's purse.

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/paulding-county-child-killed-after-accidentally-shooting-himself/154191586



So utterly sad and senseless. I feel for the parents, but damn, if people insist on having guns in their home they need to be unloaded and locked up.