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Source: Yahoo 7 News
A three-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in a car while his family stopped at a petrol station in the western US state of Washington, police say.
It was the third recent shooting by a child in western Washington.
"It is incredible in light of the other ones," said Naveed Benjamin, a police officer in Tacoma, where the shooting occurred. "You would think people would take more care, not less."
The family had stopped for petrol about 12:30am (1530 AEDT). The father put his pistol under the seat and got out to pump petrol while the mother went inside the convenience store, Benjamin said.
They left their son and their infant daughter in the car. The boy climbed out of his child seat, found the gun and shot himself in the head, police said. He was declared dead at a hospital. The girl was not injured.
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