Police: Detroit girl, 3, killed when playing with handgun

By CECIL ANGEL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
A 3-year-old girl fatally shot herself in an upstairs bedroom of a house while playing with a handgun, a Detroit police spokeswoman said this evening.
Detroit Police Sgt. Eren Stephens said the shooting occurred at about 6:15 p.m. in the 18900 block of Rockcastle near Canyon on the city’s east side. The girl was at home with her 42-year-old grandmother at the time.
“We believe she was possibly playing with the gun,” Stephens said. “Somehow it went off.”
The girl was alone in the bedroom in an upstairs bedroom when she found the gun, she said. Stephens did not know where the gun had been stored at the time the child found it.
Detroit police will provide free gun locks to any one who needs them, Stephens said. They can stop at any police district or precinct to pick up one.
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By CECIL ANGEL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
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My daughter survived this incident twice that I know of. Once because her brother and then second time is when her sister saw her with a loaded weapon left around by an idiot. My daughter called Judge Nancy C. Francis herself to tell her and the judge punished me.