8-year-old boy shoots 5-year-old friend with found rifle 
 
 By Arturo Garcia 
 
 Saturday, May 11, 2013 21:57 EDT 
 
 A 5-year-old boy in Denton, Texas was reportedly in critical condition on Saturday after an accidental shooting involving an 8-year-old friend. 
 
 KXAS-TV reported that the two boys were alone in a bedroom when the 8-year-old found a .22-caliber rifle and pointed it at the younger boy. Police said the older boy then accidentally shot his friend in the left side of his head. Two adults, including the 5-year-old boy’s grandfather, and a teenager were also inside the home at the time of the shooting. 
 
 The younger boy was first taken to a local medical facility, then transported by air to Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. KTVT-TV reported that he was on a ventilator as of Saturday evening. 
 
 “It’s a very tragic accident, especially the day before Mother’s Day,” said Denton Police spokesperson Orlando Hinojosa. “Education is the most important thing about firearm safety. Just make sure your children know, if you do have weapons in the house, where they’re at, and for them not to be reachable.” 
 
 This incident is the third shooting involving children in Texas this week, and the second involving a .22-caliber rifle. On Tuesday, Houston officials said a 5-year-old boy was handling one when he accidentally shot his 7-year-old brother while the two were taking a bath. And on Wednesday, a 2-year-old boy in Corsicana shot himself in the head with his father’s handgun. 
 
 Watch KXAS’ report on the accidental shooting in Denton, aired Saturday, below. 
 
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 [Image via Shutterstock] ||||| 2-year-old Texas boy shoots himself in the head with father’s handgun 
 
 By Stephen C. Webster 
 
 Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:07 EDT 
 
 A two-year-old boy from Corsicana, Texas, a town of just under 24,000 people located between Dallas and Waco, shot himself in the head Wednesday night with his father’s handgun while his dad was looking away, police said. 
 
 The victim was identified as Kinsler Allen Davis, according to The Associated Press. 
 
 Davis was rushed to the local hospital in Fredricksberg before medics put him on a life flight to Dallas, but even doctors there could not save him. 
 
 A police statement obtained by Dallas-based CBS DFW explained that all physical evidence so far in the case indicates the shooting was accidental. 
 
 The boy found his 35-year-old father’s handgun while the man was interacting with something in his bedroom’s closet, with his son just feet away. 
 
 “As you can imagine, they’re extremely upset and distraught,” Corsicana police chief Randy Bratton reportedly said. 
 
 This video is from CBS DFW, aired Thursday, May 9, 2013. 
 
 
 
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– It has been a bad week for kids in Texas, with three shootings involving children under 10 years old, one of them fatal, taking place in the space of four days, Raw Story reports. On Wednesday, a five-year-old shot his seven-year-old brother with an old rifle while the two played unsupervised in the bath. On Thursday, a two-year-old fatally shot himself in the head with his dad's handgun, while his father was busy elsewhere in the room, says Raw Story. And yesterday, an eight-year-old shot his five-year-old friend in the head with a rifle, as the two played alone in a bedroom. The boy is in a critical condition in hospital, the Denton Record-Chronicle reports. Two of the guns used were .22-caliber rifles, similar to the one with which a five-year-old accidentally killed his two-year-old sister in Kentucky earlier this month. The grandfather of the children spoke out this week, saying his grandson was too young to have a gun and that it was a cultural problem in rural Kentucky. "Too many people think it's (guns) for target practice. Well, what comes after target practicing—killing. I know, I was in the Marine Corps," he told the Star Democrat. “When you pick this (gun) up, you're usually going to kill something."