5-year-old boy dies from accidental gunshot wound in Utah, police say

SANTAQUIN, Utah (KSL.com) — A 5-year-old kid died Thursday from what constabulary opportunity was an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Santaquin constabulary responded to a location successful nan 700 artifact of Canyon Road astatine 2:19 p.m. wherever a young boy had suffered a gunshot coiled to nan head. The boy was successful a backmost chamber and had someway recovered a 9 mm handgun and discharged it, said Santaquin Police Lt. Mike Wall.

The parents, who were successful a different room astatine nan time, rushed to nan kid aft proceeding nan gunshot and “did what they could to effort to prevention nan child,” Wall said. Emergency aesculapian services arrived and continued life-saving efforts, but nan kid was pronounced dormant astatine nan scene.

Wall said investigators do not fishy immoderate foul play, calling it an accidental self-inflicted shot. The investigation is ongoing to observe really nan kid sewage clasp of nan gun.

Other siblings unrecorded astatine nan residence but were not location astatine nan time, he said.