Baby baby sister with a pistol killed "gift"
For a few moments I stopped young mother outside her home, but they were quite enough for her five-year-old, shot his sister, baby, only 2 years old, using a pistol bullet type 22 ″, who received it as a birthday gift.
Kentucky State police classified, the latest in a string of similar shooting incidents in the United States, as "accidental", without charge to anyone, said State police officer Billy Gregory.
The police chief said: "it's just one of those nightmares", and continued: "this is occurring rapidly when the turn your back for a moment," he said, adding that the majority of children in the region, "accustomed" to receive firearms at an early age.
Gregory said that "in this region of the country, is not a child on a gun, or one of the parents to give child one of them, strange things."
According to WLEX partner station CNN Wednesday that police still are investigating the killing of the girl Caroline sparks.
Quoting forensic official in Cumberland kwanti, Gary white, as saying that the family had kept the pistol, 22 millimeters in as safe, the child managed to reach him, and he shot his sister, killing her dead instantly.
The incident came amid a growing debate about restrictions on carrying weapons in the United States, after multiple shootings, the latest "massacre of Newtown, in a primary school in Connecticut, last December, which left 26 people dead, including 20 children.