A 9-year-old Auburn girl is recovering in a Seattle hospital after her 7-year-old brother accidentally shot her in the leg Wednesday night.
Auburn police say the kids were inside their home, located in the 4600 block of Auburn Way South, when the brother grabbed a .22 caliber rifle from another brother's closet.
At roughly 9:30 p.m., police arrived at the house and found the girl with a gunshot wound to the leg.
"He was playing with it, it was a loaded rifle and it went off," said Auburn Police Cmdr. Mike Hirman
Police are now trying to figure out if the children were home alone at the time. They have yet to file charges in the case, but the investigation is ongoing.
Due process dictates that many days of thorough investigation are required to determine if the children were home alone.
Gun-rights fanatics, even among law enforcement, will do anything they can to avoid holding people personally responsible for their actions.
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