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Karyn Maria Gonzalez was born at the time the sun is highest in the sky high noon on July 8, 2016.
Perhaps a perfect metaphor for the kind of person her father Robert Gonzalez Jr. believed that she was, “bright and full of life.”
The kind of person who could put a smile on your face almost instantly, Gonzalez said.
“She was also both loving and caring, just like her name,” Gonzalez said.
Karyn had been taught proper manners at an early age and was the “perfect little lady.”
“She always said please, thank you and said hi everyone, no matter who they were or where they were from. If you sneezed, she would always say, God bless you.’”
Father Mourns 4-Year-Old Who Shot Herself Perfect Little Lady
On 5/20/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
A young girl who fatally shot herself after she found a family member s gun has been described as a perfect little lady by her father.
Karyn Maria Gonzalez died in her mother s apartment in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday, May 16, according to the
Arizona Republic.
Tempe police officers raced to the apartment after being alerted at 8:45 p.m., where they found Karyn with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Detective Natalie Barela of the Tempe Police Department said on Tuesday that investigators believe Karyn found the gun under a piece of furniture and then shot herself.