A Three-year-old boy died in Pennsylvania after he found a loaded semi-automatic pistol on the couch cushions of his home and he shot himself.
As reported by the US media, the child’s father, 28-year-old José Hilario Abreu, is accused of manslaughter. The man he would have left the weapon on the sofa cushions on which his two children, Elijah Abreu Borgen and his two-year-old younger brother were sitting, then left the room.
Elijah he found the loaded weapon and accidentally fired a shot that hit him in the chest.
The father heard the shot and when he returned to the living room he found his son in a pool of blood. Prosecutors said the child was rushed to Lehigh Valley Hospital Cedar Crest but he died from his injuries.
Abreu was taken to the Lehigh County Jail to await his committal hearing scheduled for Friday.
The incident in Pennsylvania follows other fatal shootings involving young children in the United States in recent months due to weapons left unattended: A 3-year-old fatally shot himself in the head in February after finding a gun in his North Carolina home. That same month, a woman died after a child in her car pulled the trigger on a gun in the parking lot of a Tennessee mall. In January, the parents of a 3-year-old boy who shot and killed his 2-year-old brother were charged with manslaughter in Kentucky.
(Unioneonline)
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