A 2-year-old boy fatally shot his 4-year-old sister at a Pennsylvania gas station Tuesday, authorities said.
Highlights
- The children were in a car parked at a gas pump in Chester, south of Philadelphia.
- It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of gun it was or how he got it.
- The girl was immediately taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
- 258 children 11 and younger have been killed or injured by gunfire this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit website that tracks shootings in the U.S., a website that track shootings in America.
- The site’s eight years of data shows that 258 children and 11-year-olds 11 and under have been shot or injured in the United States this year alone.