The shooting appeared to be "unintentional and self-inflicted,"​ police said in a statement.

An 8-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself with a loaded gun left in a car while his mother was inside an Utah convenience store, police said.

The boy was alone in the car about 7:40 p.m. Monday in Lehi — a city about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City — when he shot himself in the head, Jeanteil Livingston with the Lehi City Police Department confirmed to CBS News. The incident occurred in a vehicle located in the parking lot of a Maverick gas station, police said.

The boy was taken to a local hospital in extremely critical condition. He was later airlifted to a hospital up north and died Tuesday morning, police said.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    894·
    2 months ago

    I can’t imagine leaving a loaded weapon unsecured because: I’m not an idiot.

    I have them secured where they belong in a locked gun safe with the ammo in a different location secured in its own safe. It’s not hard.

    Now, this mom gets to enjoy the horror of seeing her sons brains blown out in the back of her car played over and over and over in her mind. Stupid fuck.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      482·
      2 months ago

      I am going to guess that the loaded gun was in the car for “protection”. You know, against the rampant carjacking epidemic currently crippling Lehi, Utah. /s

      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        151·
        2 months ago

        Ah, well at least the car wasn’t stolen. Gotta find those silver linings in every tragedy. (/s for the context-illiterate.)

      • Corhen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        yep, good thing the gun was there to keep her safe, i bet her son really appreciates that.

        God these news articles, and the insanity in the USA, makes me angry.

        In a woodworking group im part of, people show off their home made, wood gun racks, which are scary enough, but once in a while someone posts a picture of a full gun room, with hundereds of long arms on the walls. Often people say “i bet this guy is scared of nothin”

        This guy is fucking terrified. I always compare it to a fire extinguisher: You go to a friends house, and they have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, they are sane.

        You go to a friends house, they have 6 fire extinguishers in every room, including the bathroom: they are terrified.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      397·
      2 months ago

      I have them secured where they belong in a locked gun safe in a museum to teach people the wrongs of our past.

    • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
      354·
      2 months ago

      I can’t imagine needing a loaded weapon because I’m not a fucking coward that’s scared of my own shadow

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      2 months ago

      Unless idiots are allowed to keep fully loaded weapons within easy reach of children the government will start throwing us into internment camps.

      /s