A Houston family is grieving after a 4-year-old boy fatally shot himself on Sunday with a gun that he found while staying at his babysitter’s house.
An ABC affiliate news station reports that Codrick McCall Jr. was sleeping over at a relative’s house while his mother was out celebrating her birthday. Around noon on Sunday, Codrick somehow got a hold of the gun and shot himself. There were multiple people in the home at the time of the tragedy. Police are currently investigating who—if anyone—is to blame in this heartbreaking story (it’s illegal to leave an unlocked, loaded gun within reach of children).
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