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Toddler left in car kills self with gun

A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in a car while his family stopped for gas early Wednesday in Tacoma, police said. It was western Washington’s third recent shooting by a child.

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There is nothing "accidental" about parents leaving a toddler and an infant alone in the car with a loaded gun. This was a deliberate act of child neglect leading to the death of one child.