California toddler killed by self-inflicted gunshot

California toddler killed by self-inflicted gunshot
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A toddler in Fresno, California, accidentally killed himself Saturday afternoon with a gunshot wound to the head.

"At the time that this occurred, there were two adults inside the home with the child," said Lt. Rob Beckwith of the Fresno Police Department, but they were not the boy's parents. It is not yet known who owned the gun, how the boy was able to obtain it, or whether criminal charges will be filed.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.