Preventable tragedies spark many to seek safer gun storage solutions
(InvestigateTV) — On Valentine’s Day 2024, a three-year-old girl named Skye found an unsecured, loaded revolver in a bedroom inside her father’s Michigan home.
She pulled the trigger. The bullet traveled through her right eye and out the back of her skull.
The devastating accident occurred just one day after Michigan’s new safe storage law took effect, making Skye’s father the first person charged under the legislation.
Her case represents what experts call one of the most preventable forms of gun violence, accidental shootings involving children who find unsecured firearms.
“Our life has changed completely due to this incident,” said LaDorothy Griggs, Skye’s aunt, watching her niece’s long road to recovery.
According to research compiled by firearm safety advocacy group Everytown, nearly every day, a person is shot in the United States because a child has accidentally fired a gun.
Children under six are more likely to be victims, and about half of unintentional firearm injury deaths among children and teens between 2001 and 2021 took place in their homes.
The statistics represent more than numbers. They’re families shattered by split-second tragedies that advocates say could have been prevented with proper gun storage.
Our team of investigators examined multiple solutions in the video at the top of the page.
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