Eleven days without killing a kid under 13 with a gun, then Texas blows the streak...

[DreamGypsy]

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...according to the Slate site How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?.

Two children (age 0 - 12) were killed by guns on July 21st:

Toddler shot and killed in Lonoke County.AK

A 3-year-old child was shot and killed at a home in Lonoke County Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.

Lonoke County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Lt. Jim Kulesa said the initial investigation revealed the child was at a friend of the family's residence on Kerr Station Road around 3:45 p.m. when he picked up a 9mm automatic.

The handgun then went off, striking the child, according to Kulesa. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene. Kulesa said there are no signs to indicate foul play.

Police: Washington 4-year-old shot, dies; felon flees

SEDRO-WOOLEY, Wash. — Police in Washington state say a convicted felon is on the run after a 4-year-old boy died Sunday of a gunshot at his home.

The Skagit Valley Herald reports that Sedro-Wooley police are treating the shooting as a homicide.

Police believe 25-year-old Trevor Braymiller is armed and dangerous. Braymiller is a convicted felon and is not allowed to have firearms. Police responded to calls of a child shot early Sunday. Early reports said the child shot himself. Lt. Lin Tucker says Braymiller was a father figure to the child, although not his biological father.

The boy was transported to Skagit Valley Hospital and was pronounced dead.

Tucker says the house where the shooting occurred is well known to authorities. In 2011, police conducted a drug raid there.

Slate reports no other children killed by a gun until last Friday, August 2nd -

Texas grandfather arrested in boy's shooting death

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — The grandfather of a 9-year-old boy killed in an accidental shooting has been released from jail. A Clay County Jail dispatcher said Sunday that 56-year-old Danny Eugene Bowman was no longer there.

The Wichita Falls Times Record (http://bit.ly/11FixDo ) reports Bowman was arrested Friday on a child endangerment charge. That came shortly after grandson Daniel Wiley was killed by a shotgun blast to the face in rural Clay County.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the newspaper, Bowman told deputies he left Daniel and a 13-year-old grandson alone with a disabled, 76-year-old great-grandmother while he drove to get beer. He told them the weapon is always loaded and unsecured.

The older grandson told deputies the gun discharged when he handed it to Daniel.

Maybe a lesson here: Tell your 13 year old grandson - Do not point the loaded shotgun at your brother's/cousin's face when you hand it to them.

[freshwest]

1. On the run, not sure why this is called a homocide:

The little boy that is said to have shot himself in another story, that says the felon turned himself in, though:



http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Victims-grandmother-I-just-wish-that-I-could-wake-up-and-he-would-be-there-217383241.html

The felon made the gun available, but didn't shoot him. Horrible waste of a young boy's life.

[Heather MC]

2. Umm this can't be right I was just reading about three children being shot at a playground in

Chicago
A 4 year old little girl is fighting for her life right now in the hospital

[DreamGypsy]

3. Slate tracks gun deaths, not all shootings.

August 02, 2013, 3 charged in shooting of 4-year-old girl:

Three teenagers have been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a 4-year-old girl as she rode her scooter near her grandmother's home early this week, authorities said.

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Three other young children were shot and wounded in Chicago in July:

• A 7-year-old boy was shot in the neck in Cole Park in the Chatham neighborhood on July 3.

• Jaden Donald, 5, was shot in the chest at Cooper Park in the West Pullman neighborhood early on July 4.

• Quianna Tomplins, 6, was shot while riding a scooter in the Roseland neighborhood July 20. She was at a memorial for a man shot to death on the same street five years ago.

There have been 2 children age 0 to 12 shot and killed in Chicago since Newtown:

Sterling Sims
Killed in Chicago, IL
Shot on 6/28/2013
Age: 5
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Jonylah Watkins
Killed in Chicago, IL
Shot on 3/11/2013
Age: 0
Source: www.nbcbayarea.com