A FAMILY is mourning after a 10-year-old accidentally shot his older brother.
The boys were playing with a gun they found inside a St. Louis home when the shooting occurred.
The shooting happened Tuesday night in a neighborhood in north St. Louis, the Associated Press reports.
Police say the children were with their parent who was getting a haircut in the home when the older boy was shot in the face.
A woman was arrested on Wednesday on a possible charge of endangering the welfare of a child, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
This shooting comes after two other children died while playing with a gun in ST. Louis.
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Cousins Paris Harvey and Kuaron Harvey were streaming on Instagram live. As Paris held the gun it went off, shooting Kuaron in the head.
Paris then shot herself, but her mother Shinise Harvey says it was a “freak accident.”
“(Paris) dropped the gun, and it fell, and it went off, to my knowledge.”
“And then when she picked it up, she picked it up by the barrel and it went off. That’s all I know … It was not a suicide. It was just a freak accident.”
The children were at a family get-together and Shinise says she didn’t know Paris had gotten the gun and she doesn’t know where she found it.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Maj. Ryan Cousins urged residents to use gun locks.
“As an agency, we will come out and teach everyone how to use them,” Cousins said. “We do understand people are going to own guns; however, to protect these children, we want to ensure these guns are secured safely.”
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