A 7-year-old child accidentally shot and killed a 5-year-old in Kentucky on Monday, according to the Kentucky State Police.
Police were alerted to the shooting at a Jackson County home around 5:30 p.m., where they tried to save the child to no avail.Guns are the leading cause of death among U.S. children and teens, with rates of gun deaths rising 50% in just two years, according to a So far this year, more than 800 children and teenagers have been killed by guns — a number that includes homicides and suicides — according to the Gun Violence Archive.
This marks just one of the multiple instances of accidental shootings between children this month. Earlier this month, a 4-year-old girl wasIn the first week of June, a 3-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in Tennessee.
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