The US police in Minnesota said on Facebook that a 13-year-old boy was suspected of accidentally shooting while carrying a pistol, killing the child.
She added that the boy was arrested and placed in a juvenile center.
In its statement, the police indicated that “other minors were present” at the scene of the accident, a house in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, where they “were trying to film a movie for dissemination on social networks.”
The guns also killed at least 35 other people Thursday during the Americans’ celebration of Thanksgiving, according to the “Gun Finance Archives” website.
A 5-year-old girl died in Atlanta.
Her family recounted on a local television channel that she had accidentally activated a loaded pistol that had been left on a chair.
But the police confirmed via “Fox” channel that a three-year-old boy had shot her by mistake.
A 25-year-old man was also killed by a stray bullet in Philadelphia while eating with his family.
Police are looking for a 19-year-old suspected of shooting him after he was evicted from another party in a nearby house, according to a local NBC affiliate.
The manifestations of armed violence have increased since the beginning of the Corona pandemic in the United States, which has killed more than 40,000 people since the beginning of the year, including suicides, according to the “Gun Finance Archives” website, which indicated that this outcome includes 274 children under the age of 12 years.
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