{"id":1876073,"date":"2023-03-13T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-year-old-accidently-shoots-and-kills-her-4-year-old-sister\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T21:42:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T01:42:32","slug":"3-year-old-accidently-shoots-and-kills-her-4-year-old-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-year-old-accidently-shoots-and-kills-her-4-year-old-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"3-year-old accidently shoots and kills her 4-year-old sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-year-old-accidently-shoots-and-kills-her-4-year-old-sister%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1876073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Brandon Bell\/Staff via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN Brooke Mallory<br \/>UPDATED 6:25 PM \u2013 Monday, March 13, 2023<\/p>\n<p>According to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, a 3-year-old Texas girl accidentally shot and killed her 4-year old sister.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px;min-height: 50px;text-align: center\">  \t  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(&#8216;div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1&#8217;); });  \t  <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the sheriff, the incident was unintentional and unfortunate. However, it could have been prevented with proper education and parental guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales reported that Gonzales and five of their friends, two children and two adults, were enjoying a Sunday night in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst of the rest of his family, the 3-year old managed to grab a loaded semiautomatic pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Both parents claimed that their daughters believed that the other parent was looking after them.<\/p>\n<p>The family said that they heard a loud gunshot. They eventually found their 4-year old daughter unconscious and lying on her stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Around 7:30 p.m. Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (HCSO deputies received the terrible call about the juvenile.<\/p>\n<p>They arrived at the scene to find the child had been tragically declared dead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;It just seems like another tragic story of another child gaining access to a firearm and hurting someone else,&#8221; Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gonzales stated that the investigation was ongoing and that it is very likely that someone will be charged with failing to secure their weapon responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest instance of a child using an unsecure firearm to intentionally or accidentally take another person&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-year-old boy from Virginia decided to take a gun to school to shoot his teacher. The teacher who was injured is still in recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Everytown Research &#038; Policy, which compiled the data, also estimated that there were at most 2,070 unintentional shots by children younger than 18 between 2015-2020. They are known for their support of education regarding gun control and strong opposition to gun violence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;In no other similarly large or wealthy country are firearms deaths in the top four causes of mortality let alone the number one cause of death among children,&#8221; Last year, a Kaiser Family Foundation representative was posted. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends that gun owners keep firearms locked and unloaded. Ammunition should be kept in a separate safe.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest news directly to your inbox Sign up now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/3-year-old-accidently-shoots-and-kills-her-4-year-old-sister\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=3-year-old-accidently-shoots-and-kills-her-4-year-old-sister\">Accidentally shoots and kills 3-year-old sister, killing her 4-year-old brother<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Brandon Bell\/Staff via Getty Images) OAN Brooke MalloryUPDATED 6:25 PM \u2013 Monday, March 13, 2023 A 3-year-old girl in Texas accidently shot and killed her 4-year-old sister, said Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. The sheriff said that the incident appeared to be an unintentional and unfortunate occurrence, but one that could\u2019ve been easily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[12878,16731,21559,3904,8510,5712],"class_list":["post-1876073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-3-year-old","tag-4-year-old","tag-accidently","tag-kills","tag-shoots","tag-sister"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}