{"id":9349,"date":"2025-05-20T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=9349"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T09:42:48","slug":"11-year-old-boy-accidentally-shot-to-death-by-sibling-inside-of-their-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=9349","title":{"rendered":"11-year-old boy accidentally shot to death by sibling inside of their home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">An 11-year-old boy was accidentally shot to death by his sibling inside of their Wisconsin home, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The incident occurred on Friday when the Racine Police Department in Wisconsin received a call at 10:33 p.m. reporting that a juvenile had been struck by gunfire and was being taken to the hospital by his family, according to a statement from the Racine Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cWhen officers arrived at the hospital, they located an 11-year-old male suffering from a single gunshot wound,\u201d police said. \u201cThe 11-year-old male did not survive his injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Preliminary information indicate that the incident took place inside a home in the 2600 block of Prospect Street in Racine and that the victim was \u201caccidentally shot by a sibling,\u201d authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cA suspect has been identified and apprehended,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities did not disclose what may have happened leading up to the incident or how the juveniles came into contact with a firearm inside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The investigation is currently ongoing and more information about this case will be released in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old boy was accidentally shot to death by his sibling inside of their Wisconsin home, police said. The incident occurred on Friday when the Racine Police Department in Wisconsin received a call at 10:33 p.m. reporting that a juvenile had been struck by gunfire and was being taken to the hospital by his family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9350,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9349\/revisions\/9350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}