Georgia 2-year-old shot, killed by 4-year-old as family checked into vacation rental

[groundloop]

Source: WSB TV

A 2-year-old Georgia boy died after detectives say he was accidentally shot by a 4-year-old during a family vacation in Florida.

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office says the family from Jefferson County, Ga. was checking into Cove East at Storey Lake around 4 p.m. Sunday while the two children were left unsupervised in a vehicle.

Deputies say a 4-year-old found the gun and shot the 2-year-old, who was rushed to the hospital. He didn’t make it.

“The gun was unsecured. I would think of his in a holster, maybe make it harder for the child to manipulate as well. But it’s literally laying out by itself. So it’s easy to grab,” Sheriff Chris Blackmon said at a news conference.



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This is only one of the gun related deaths I've read about today. It's sickening that gun deaths have become so normalized in 'Murica that we largely ignore them.

[twodogsbarking]

1. Toosdy in 'merica.

[slightlv]

2. Just laying around loose in a car with a 2 year old and a 4 year old

inside alone, unsupervised. Parental neglect, at the very least. Raw tragedy in truest American fashion.

[mdbl]

16. Parents will be prosecuted

It's a terrible tragedy and my heart goes out the the 4 year old who will have to live with what happened, no matter the memory is recalled later.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. "But, but...

I bought the gun to keep my family safe.".

[maxsolomon]

5. There were 14,651 gun deaths in 2025.

40 per day is NORMAL.

[groundloop]

17. Maybe the statistical mean, but definitely not "normal"

[maxsolomon]

19. 9/10 gun deaths we never even hear about.

Not judged newsworthy.

[IbogaProject]

6. I hope his lawyer tries the "stand your ground defense"

But truly I hope the parents are put up for negligent homicide and whatever else they can stack onto them.

[relogic]

7. To the parents: Three suggestions

Don’t breed
Don’t fondle guns
Cherish children instead

[sarisataka]

8. Rethink your words.

[relogic]

9. What words

mine or the parents?

[sarisataka]

10. Your third suggestion

[relogic]

11. You are correct

My archaic understanding of that word does not fit in today’s child abuse reality.
Thank you.

[sarisataka]

12. Much better

[electric_blue68]

13. Woah...wait... somehow this word ["cherish"] could now be associated with child abuse?!

If it is, it is..but woah, I had idea!

[sarisataka]

14. Originally the poster used the same verb

from the second suggestion in reference to children. They have since updated to the much more appropriate "cherish"

[electric_blue68]

15. Ah, I understand now. TY

[Polybius]

22. Yikes

What were they thinking?

[fujiyamasan]

18. In 'MURICA guns don't kill people

It’s kids that kill people! We need kid control now!

Or better yet, in MURICA it’s my right to leave an insecure gun my kid can use to kill my other kid!

[Raftergirl]

20. Why the eff does anyone need to take a gun with them on vacation?

I swear these gun nutters are afraid of their own shadow.

I hope they throw the book at the parents and make then look at a picture of their 2 yr old child all day and night in their prison cell, until they get taken out in a box.

[JustKay]

21. In America. guns are more precious than children!