A 4-year-old Texas boy accidentally shot and killed himself Sunday after he found a loaded gun in his babysitter’s house.
Codrick McCall Jr.’s mom dropped the boy off at a friend’s Harris County home Saturday so she could celebrate her birthday, relatives told the Houston Chronicle. At some point Sunday morning, Codrick found a gun in the home and shot himself, deputies said.
“My baby is gone,” Codrick’s mom, Ashley Beal, cried at the scene.
Harris County deputies and Texas Child Protective Services are investigating how the tot got his hands on the loaded weapon. Any charges in the case will be determined by a grand jury, officials said.
The boy’s family said his death could have been prevented. His grandmother Sharron McCall told ABC 13 the weapon should have had a lock on it.
“You can’t bring death back,” she said. “All we can do is try to pick up the pieces and continue with life. There is nothing else to do.”
Two days before Codrick’s death, another Harris County boy accidentally killed himself. The unidentified 3-year-old shot himself in the neck while his mom was in another part of the house, police said.
In January, a 2-year-old boy in Florida died after he found his father’s loaded gun. Last month, a 3-year-old Louisiana girl died after she picked up her dad’s handgun.
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