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4-Year-Old Dies After Finding Gun, Shooting Self in Colorado

4-Year-Old Dies After Finding Gun, Shooting Self in Colorado
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The Associated Press
The Associated Press
7/7/2021|Updated: 7/7/2021

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A 4-year-old child has died after finding a gun in a car outside a Colorado marijuana dispensary and accidentally shooting themselves, police said.

The Gazette reports that the child’s mother and a younger sibling were in the car at the time of the shooting Tuesday, and the father was in the store in Manitou Springs, a resort city just outside Colorado Springs.

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