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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A two-year-old was changeable successful the look aft gaining entree to an unsecured firearm wrong an apartment, Merced Police announced Saturday.
Officials with the Merced Police Department responded to a shooting connected Friday afternoon astatine astir 4 p.m. astatine an flat analyzable adjacent Childs Avenue and B Street.
Police said contempt being rushed to the hospital, the kid was pronounced dead.
"It is not worthy it. Spend the clip to marque your weapon harmless due to the fact that the alternate is unthinkable," Todd Cotta said, proprietor of Kings Gun Center Indoor Range and Gun Store successful Hanford.
He said determination are galore ways for weapon owners to safely fastener distant their firearms.
"It's precise elemental to unafraid a firearm, whether it's a large level harmless wrong of your closet oregon if it's a tiny TSA weapon lockbox, arsenic agelong arsenic it has a fastener connected it, they can't get into it," Cotta said.
Cotta said a harmless that is secured to an entity oregon a large dense harmless is the champion option.
"Kids volition find stuff. They person a way, and if thing is taboo, that's adjacent much important for them to find it. Lock your guns up," Cotta said.
He said it is inexcusable to let tragedies similar these to occur.
"A harmless oregon adjacent a weapon fastener you get for escaped astatine your section constabulary department. We springiness them distant astatine my store. There's nary excuse wherefore a toddler oregon adjacent anybody that is nether the property of 18 should person entree to a weapon without a genitor present," Cotta said.
The begetter of the two-year-old has been booked successful the Merced County Jail connected charges of kid endangerment resulting successful death.
The Merced Police Department released a connection that work successful part:
The section extends deepest condolences to the household and assemblage during this incredibly hard time.
Merced Police DepartmentThe constabulary section urges each weapon owners to safely store firearms retired of scope of children to debar preventable tragedies similar this.
"It is simply a tragic lawsuit based connected negligence that should ne'er person happened," Cotta said.
Police are continuing to analyse the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
