A 3-year-old American boy kills his mother with his father's gun

A three-year-old American boy killed his mother while playing with a firearm, local police said Monday.

And this common tragedy in the United States occurred on Saturday evening in the garage of a store in Dolton, in the suburbs of Chicago.

The child was sitting in his seat on the back seat of the car while his parents were in the front seats.

The father's pistol became in the child's possession, without knowing how this happened.

"He started playing with the gun, and at some point he pulled the trigger," local police chief Robert Collins told AFP.

His mother, Daiga Bennett, 22, was shot in the neck and died in a Chicago hospital after she was taken to him in an emergency photo.

Collins indicated that the father was arrested to ascertain whether he was carrying a gun legally and whether he should be legally prosecuted, and this incident is among a series of similar incidents recorded in the United States.

A recent report by Everytown for Gun Safety stated that "hundreds of children in the United States each year have access to unsafe, lead-loaded weapons tucked away in cupboards, drawers, bags, or simply left unattended" and shoot by mistake. .

The organization, which fights for better control of firearms and especially demands that they be kept in safe safes, noted that "unintentional shootings" of minors lead to an average of 350 deaths annually.

More broadly, firearms cause about forty thousand deaths annually in the United States, including deaths from suicide, according to the "Gann Finance Archive" website.

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