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.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1231·
    14 days ago

    Utah does not have any laws to penalize someone for failing to secure an unattended firearm and leaving it accessible to an unsupervised minor, according to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The state also does not require unattended firearms to be stored in a certain way or require a locking device to be sold with a firearm.

    thanks to the “gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens!” crowd

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    873·
    14 days 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.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      377·
      14 days 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
      334·
      14 days ago

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

      • Dkarma@lemmy.world
        441·
        14 days ago

        Well you’re in the UK so cowardice is pretty standard over there, regardless.

        • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
          222·
          14 days ago

          I’m not in the UK, thanks

          But I’m still not cowardly enough to own a handgun because I’m not a quivering fucking shitebag

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      14 days 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

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    294·
    14 days ago

    if you own a gun human killing device, you are statistically more likely to die from it.

    its just that simple. your guns human killing devices do not make you more safe.

  • throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world
    212·
    14 days ago

    Clearly there’s no realistic way to prevent things like this from continuing to happen. Fuck I love America.