10-year-old boy accidentally shoots, kills himself
By Web Staff
PHILADELPHIA (KYW) A 10-year-old boy is dead after he got a hold of a gun at home and accidentally shot and killed himself in North Philadelphia. Police tell Eyewitness News the boy and his sister were home alone Saturday when the shooting happened. He died later at the hospital.
“Supposedly there was a gun inside a cabinet that the children found and at some point, it was discharged into his own head,” Philadephia Police Captain Lee Strollo said.
The shooting happened at about 6 p.m. Saturday.
The boy and his 8-year-old sister were in a home on North Broad Street and West Pacific Avenue in the city’s Tioga neighborhood. Police say the sister ran to a neighbor’s house asking for help.
The man arrested in connection with a shooting in Browne’s Addition that left one man dead and another injured told police the man he killed had abused him , according to court documents.
Frankie Lewis Kimble Jr. 34, was arrested Monday on suspicion of first-degree murder, assault and possession of a stolen firearm.
Smith’s cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds and the manner was homicide, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Not long after, police found a second victim, Travis Young, who had also been shot, according to court documents. Young, Smith’s son, was taken to a local hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, police said.
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