5-Year-Old Girl Shoots and Kills Herself While Playing With Father's Gun

A five-year-old girl in Louisiana accidentally shot and killed herself Saturday while she was playing with her father’s gun. Haley Moore’s father Eric told police he got in the shower and left his handgun on a table. Haley’s two older siblings reportedly witnessed the accident. 

WDSU reports that Moore died of her injuries Saturday morning at a hospital in LaPlace, Louisiana after Eric Moore left the children alone with a loaded gun:

“The father said he was taking a shower when he heard a gunshot,” Lt. Greg Baker said. “He got out of the shower, and that’s when he discovered that his daughter had accidentally shot herself.”
Baker said the bullet entered Haley’s right chest and came out under her left arm. A neighbor, Joy Ursin, said her husband was outside mowing their lawn when the first deputy arrived around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. She knew something was terribly wrong when she saw Haley’s older sister and brother.
“The officer pulled up,” Ursin said. “The kids ran out of the house screaming.”