A 5-year-old American boy was shot dead in the suburbs of Minneapolis on Saturday, November 27. The 13-year-old author of the shooting was shooting a video for social networks with a group of teenagers, said police in Brooklyn Park, in the northern United States.
Placed in detention in a center for minors, the young teenager is suspected of having accidentally shot while handling a gun. A press release from the authorities reports that “several other minors were present” at the scene of the tragedy. “They were trying to shoot a film for social networks,” in a house in this suburb of Minneapolis, he said.
On Thursday alone, 35 people died from gunfire, according to the Gun Violence Archives website. As Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, one of the country’s most popular holidays, a 5 year old girl also died in South Fulton, on the outskirts of Atlanta. Her family said they accidentally unloaded a gun from a chair, on local broadcaster WCB-TV, before the chain Fox assures us that a 3 year old child was at the origin of the shooting.
A 25-year-old man was shot dead in Philadelphia by a stray bullet while dining with his family. Police are looking for a 19-year-old suspected of shooting after being kicked out of another party at a nearby house, local media reported. More than 40,000 gun deaths have been recorded in the country since the start of the year.
