Found Gun Goes Off, Wounds Child

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Another case where a gun wasn't safely stored - Wayne

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Found Gun Goes Off, Wounds Child

5-Year-Old Boy Shot In Face

LOS ANGELES -- A 5-year-old Lancaster, Calif., boy was shot in the face while he and other children were playing a gun, a sheriff's lieutenant said Thursday.

Sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 call from a home in the 45100 block of Beech Avenue about 7:05 p.m. Wednesday, said Lt. Pat Nelson of the sheriff's Lancaster station.

A neighborhood child apparently found a loaded revolver in an alleyway behind the home, Nelson said.

While she was showing the gun to several other neighborhood children, she dropped the gun and it went off, wounding the boy, Nelson said.

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