A Florida boy is dead after he shot himself while playing with an unsecured handgun left on a nightstand, the Volusia County Sheriff's Office said.
The 3-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the face inside a DeLand home Wednesday evening while he and a 7-year-old were being watched by their 16-year-old sister.
Police said that the children's parents were at the grocery store when the older sibling made a frantic 911 call.
“My little brother shot himself! There is blood everywhere!” she said through tears.
Sheriff Mike Chitwood described the call as “one of the worst calls imaginable” adding that the children's father works as a corrections officer and had two handguns in the home.
“This should never have happened. If you have little ones, even if you have teenagers, you gotta lock [guns] up,” he said.
