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POLICE IN ST Louis, Missouri, have confirmed a 21-month-old baby boy was shot and killed today.
St. Louis County PD / TwitterThe child shot in the 7700 Utica block of Utica was a 21-mth old male. pic.twitter.com/NWqku1uEkb
— St. Louis County PD (@stlcountypd) August 25, 2015
CBS St Louis reports the boy was brought to hospital by relatives. Police say they have not established the circumstances of the shooting but a woman believed to be the boy’s mother is being questioned at the hospital about what happened.
Kevin Killeen / TwitterStl Co police Sgt. Brian Schellman says a 21-month old boy is shot dead. Unknown who fired the shot. pic.twitter.com/BodnvSwt1L
— Kevin Killeen (@KMOXKilleen) August 25, 2015
Nancy Cambria / TwitterNeighbor said house down the street from house suspected in today's infant fatal shooting was recent scene of drive-by shooting. @stltoday
— Nancy Cambria (@nanecam) August 25, 2015
It is thought the shooting may have taken place inside a home in the Hanley Hills neighbourhood.
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If only there was a good guy there with a gun that could have stopped the shooter. USA you are fücked up
Arm the babies. You cannot be too young to start an arsenal of weapons.
I’m surprised the poor child did not get a gun for its first birthday, when will the madness stop. American guns kill people.
Ffs. Crazy gun world
poor little baby, what a terrible way to die.
FFS When will they cop th f*** on in the US.
Shot dead by a person who used a gun accidentally or intentionally to kill the child.
If the child had been armed with a powerful automatic or semi automatic weapon, the child could have defended herself or himself in a fire fight.
You cannot teach a baby too early in the basics of weaponry. Start at 12 months and build up to really serious and powerful guns by 18 months.
only in america! land of the brave my bokex!!
Four people shot dead in the town of Roye. 110km north of Paris. One of the victims was a six year old child. Two other people seriously injured, one was a three year old. Just to remind you that Paris is not in America.
My apology, I said the child was six years old, should have read six months old.
Beg to differ , Shawn ( should that not be Seán ? ) …….Paris, Texas is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 25,171. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, and 98 miles (158 km) northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex
and I suppose there’s also a town called Roye situated 110km north of that Paris?
Shawn a policeman was shot and died later in the same incident Family feud or drunkenness?
Shawn, the difference is the sheer amount of shootings, especially accidental shootings, that happen in the US. The fact that it’s now totally commonplace to read at least one article like this a week, usually about the shooting of a child, or a child shooting a parent. We don’t hear about half of the shootings I’m sure that happen there every day simy because they aren’t sensational anymore.
Mindless.
I feel so sorry for America. They have no sense of reality at all. Sorry but they are friggin idiots; simple as that!!!
Remember, guns don’t kill people…
video games are to blame or maybe the confederate flag or perhaps the bad economy…..maybe the stock market crash in China was too much for the wee fella and he took his own life…..but it was definitely not the fault of lax gun laws.
I was hoping Obama would have had stricter gun laws by now – I still do believe he is the only one that will be brave enough to get it done in the near future.
I’m just afraid his term will be up by the time he does get around to enforcing it.
I fail to comprehend why you cover shootings in the USA.Every single day 365 up to 30 people are shot dead in the USA.It’s a fact of life and death there and the vast majority don’t give a fiddlers f–k. We shouldn’t either.
Thanks for reading the article and commenting on an article, the topic of which is a matter of complete indifference to you.
They are gun nuts in USA and warmongers . Their view of freedom is fcu#ed up. Nothing will change . R I P little one.
What has 4 legs and one arm?
A Doberman in a children’s playground!
I gave ya a thumbs down, propogenda, but I laughed, truth be told.
As terrible as this is, I’m at the point where I’m losing all sympathy for Americans when they suffer a gun related tragedy. At this stage they need to cop the hell on and sort out their gun laws! If not then why should we bother having any sympathy for them?
america , who’d have thought?
A tragic accident.
You know we don’t need to know everything.
Some of the stupidest, overweight people on the planet live there.
Freedom isn’t free. Murica
MERICA!!
The obvious solution so this is to give babies guns. Only a baby with a gun can stop a baby being shot.
Plate carriers don’t come in children’s sizes, but strangely, they have them for dogs.
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