3-Year-Old Alaska Boy Dies After Finding Gun

Published May 14, 2010

| Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Anchorage police say a 3-year-old boy has died after finding a gun and accidentally shooting himself.

Police spokeswoman Anita Shell says the father called 911 after 9 a.m. Friday. The father reported the child had taken a gun off a TV stand and shot himself.

Shell says investigators were interviewing both the father, the only other person at home at the time of the shooting, and the mother.

Crime scene investigators were en route to the home in the 4800 block of Loretta Lane.

The child was pronounced dead at the scene.

No other information was immediately available.

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