Category: Odd + Funny Author : Kim LaCapria Posted: March 9, 2010
Tags : accidents, sad, toddler dies in wii gun mix-up, wii, Wii Controllers, wii fatalities, wii gun
A three-year-old girl from Tennessee has died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen after police say the gun was mislaid near a similarly shaped Wii controller.
Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan of Norene accidentally picked up the loaded handgun while playing a Wii game when the accident occurred:
The child had been playing a Nintendo Wii video game, Ashe said. The game’s controller was shaped like a gun that looked very similar to the real handgun, which her stepfather had put on a table in the living room. Ashe said the girl pulled the gun off the table and it went off.
Police say the handgun was resting on the table after the girl’s stepfather used it to intimidate dogs in the family’s yard. The incident is under investigation, and no charges have been filed in the shooting. Both parents were home at the time of the accident Sunday night.
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Mar 11, 2010
What an awful accident. I just could not imagine how the mother shouted for devastation seeing her daughter dead. The stepfather is truly brainless to put the gun in places that are easily reached by toddler! Parent of Cheyenne should be blame on the death of the kid. In relation to gun shooting, the alleged perpetrator of the recent Ohio State shooting, Nathaniel Brown, is in police custody and he will likely go to the clink for a long time for killing his boss and wounding another person. Luckily, it happened in the wee hours, and hardly anyone was around on the Ohio State University campus – and the emergency system alerted everyone. Some will say that we need more gun control, some will argue less – but the fact is nothing will stop insane people from committing insane acts.