{"id":81466,"date":"2025-07-21T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81466\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:08:12","slug":"10-year-old-boy-accidentally-shoots-himself-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81466\/","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old boy accidentally shoots himself in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/police-lights-generic-minneapolis.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">police lights generic Minneapolis <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; A 10-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the hand with a handgun overnight Sunday, according to Fort Worth police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Fort Worth police responded to a shooting call in the 1500 block of Burmeister Road around 1:20 a.m. Monday. Officers found that a 10-year-old boy had been playing with a gun when he accidentally shot himself in the hand.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The child was taken to a local hospital, where he is expected to recover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The Crimes Against Children Unit was notified, and an investigation into the incident is underway.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The boy&#8217;s identity has not been released due to his young age. It is unclear whether the boy was supervised at the time of the shooting or how he obtained the gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from Fort Worth police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article police lights generic Minneapolis FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A 10-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the hand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-81466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114893036277040791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}