USA A 6-year-old boy opens fire in a school and seriously injures a teacher
A 10-year-old boy
shot his classmate
, a year older, in the head for beating him in a video game, in an impoverished region of the state of
Veracruz,
eastern
Mexico,
authorities said.
The incident occurred
on Sunday in a store
that rents consoles and video games when the minor assailant was upset because another boy identified as
Samuel,
11, won a game, so he went home,
took a gun from his relatives. and returned to the premises
to shoot him.
"All I ask is that you help me do justice, because my son died because of the parents of that child who killed my son, because it is a lack of responsibility to leave a gun on the table as if they were things to eat" ,
Leticia, the mother of the deceased child
, told the press
during the funeral on Tuesday.
The offending child and his family fled.
The governor of Veracruz,
Cuitláhuac García,
described as "sad" the fact that a child has access to a weapon.
"He has to act in accordance with his rights to see the responsibilities for the weapon, because without a doubt there are responsibilities," he said Monday.
At the beginning of January, in the United States, a six-year-old boy shot his teacher at a school in the state of
Virginia,
seriously wounding her.
Veracruz is one of the most violent states in Mexico due to
disputes between drug traffickers and the latter with security forces.
Since 2006,
when then-President
Felipe Calderón
launched an anti-drug offensive, there have been some
340,000 murders
and tens of thousands of disappearances, most attributed to organized crime.
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