Two young girls have been accidentally shot dead by their own brothers in separate gun incidents less than 24 hours apart.
One, an 11-year-old girl (above), was shot dead at her family home in Philadelphia on Saturday. The little girl was killed by a gun fired by her two-year-old brother. The toddler is is thought to have picked up a loaded gun in a bedroom and fired a shot, which pierced the older girl’s shoulder and chest. She died at the hospital.
Less than 24 hours earlier, 10-year-old Taylor Jowers (left), died in Savannah, Georgia, by a 12-giage shotgun accidentally fired by her brother while their parents were at work.Her brother was thought to be checking the firearm wasn’t loaded when it went off.
Taylor was lying in a pool of blood on the living room floor when emergency workers responded to a call that the girl was shot. The little girl died before a helicopter arrived to airlift her to a hospital. Their father, a convicted felon, faces charges for storing guns inside the house.
Meanwhile, a third child has also been killed by a gun accidentally fired by a young relative. 11-year old Montez Burroughs (right), was playing at a relative’s house Friday night when his 12-year-old nephew picked up a gun and it went off. The little boy, from Jacksonville, Florida, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.