{"id":32052,"date":"2013-05-08T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/3-year-old-boy-kills-self-in-florida\/32052\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:16:00","slug":"3-year-old-boy-kills-self-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/3-year-old-boy-kills-self-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"3-year-old boy kills self in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

File photo of a child holding a 9mm gun.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Police say a three-year-old boy has shot and killed himself after finding a gun in his uncle\u2019s backpack in the US city of Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Jadarrius Speights died on Tuesday after accidentally shooting himself with a 9mm gun in an apartment complex in the US state of Florida, local authorities said.<\/p>\n

Police arrested 29-year-old Jeffrey Walker and charged him with culpable negligence, though only the toddler\u2019s parents were present in the bedroom at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n

The incident was the fourth fatal shooting involving kids in the United States in the past month.<\/p>\n

On April 30, a 5-year-old boy shot dead 2-year-old Caroline Sparks with a gun marketed as \u201cMy First Rifle\u201d in the US state of Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Authorities said on April 9 that six-year-old Brandon Holt died after being shot in the head by his four-year-old playmate in the US state of New Jersey.<\/p>\n

On April 8, a four-year-old boy in the state of Tennessee shot and killed the wife of a sheriff\u2019s deputy, using one of the loaded guns that he was showing off to a friend at his home.<\/p>\n

The United States has for many years been engaged in shooting incidents, many of them in schools and universities. The country has been debating gun-control laws following a series of tragic shootings in the past months.<\/p>\n

On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Before driving to the school, Lanza had shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home.<\/p>\n

GMA\/KA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This article originally appeared on : Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File photo of a child holding a 9mm gun. Police say a three-year-old boy has shot and killed himself after finding a gun in his uncle\u2019s backpack in the US city of Tampa Bay. Jadarrius Speights died on Tuesday after accidentally shooting himself with a 9mm gun in an apartment complex in the US state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}