11-Year-Old Shot and Killed After Kids Find Unattended Gun Left in Car in Walmart Parking Lot
On 4/13/21 at 2:40 PM EDT
An 11-year-old was shot and killed by a 9-year-old in Dallas, Texas, this week after the children were left unattended in a car and found a firearm in the vehicle.
The 11-year-old, who has been identified by his mother as Dazmon Brown Jr., was in the care of the mother of an 11-year-old friend and that friend s 9-year-old brother on Sunday when they were left in a car as the friend s parent went shopping in Walmart, according to the Dallas Morning News. As the boys waited in the car in the parking lot, they found a gun, which they began to play with before the 9-year-old shot Brown in the head. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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At first, her doctor said she didn’t see why not, only to learn that the instructions that came with the vaccine were very clear: She couldn’t give the vaccine to anyone under 65.
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Shepard, a North Florida resident, called the health departments in several counties, only to get the same answer. No one was allowed to vaccinate anyone under 65, even if they had serious medical conditions.
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