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The number of children accidentally shot and killed by adults or other children in America is higher than previously reported, according to a front-page story in yesterday’s Times. A review of hundreds of child firearm deaths by Michael Luo and Mike McIntire found that accidental shootings occur roughly twice as often as records indicate because of idiosyncrasies in how such deaths are classified by the authorities: more than half of the 259 accidental firearm deaths of kids under age 15 identified by The Times in eight states were not recorded as accidents. Such shootings are routinely classified as homicides, a common practice when one person unintentionally shoots another.

The National Rifle Association has contended that children are more likely to be killed by falls, poisoning or drownings than accidental shootings, citing the lower figures in fact sheets opposing “safe storage” gun laws. And while the organization’s lobbying arm claims that criminals who mishandle firearms are responsible for most fatal accidents involving children, The Times’s review found that, in a vast majority of cases, the shooting was either self-inflicted or done by another child.

Fewer than 20 states have enacted laws to hold adults criminally liable if they fail to secure guns away from children. Here is today’s report, which includes a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot during a fight among teenagers, a 6-year-old who accidentally shot himself and a 14-year-old accidentally shot by his friends.

—Jennifer Mascia

Friday:

A 3-year old girl was shot and wounded during a fight among nearly a hundred teenagers in Yonkers, N.Y., Friday afternoon, and a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were arrested. A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg with what appears to be a stray bullet at a Bronx, N.Y., playground late Friday. Following a years-long feud, Josephine Ruckinger burst into her parents’ home in Ashville, Pa., Friday night and shot and killed her mother and brother before her father shot and killed her. Four people were shot and wounded at a Jacksonville, Fla., nightclub early Friday. A 16-year-old was shot in the leg and wounded while walking home from school in Lehigh Acres, Fla., Thursday afternoon, and the 18-year-old suspect was arrested after fleeing on a bicycle.

A 17-year-old boy was killed and three men were injured in separate shootings on the south side of Chicago, Ill., Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Ronald J. Harris, a pastor, was fatally shot as he preached to a crowd of 60 during a revival service in Lake Charles, La., Friday night, and a church deacon has been accused of the crime. Cheyenne Green, 29, was shot and killed during an 8th grade football game in Gilmer, Tex., Thursday night, and police arrested Jonathan Ray Shepherd, the father of her child, with whom she was engaged in a custody battle. Police believe the shooting that claimed the life of 47-year-old Jane Aiello and critically injured her husband, 48-year-old Vito Aiello, at their home in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., late Thursday was an attempted murder-suicide.

One person was killed and another person was injured in a shooting at a flea market in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday afternoon. William Keith Hall, 57, shot and killed a man who was robbing his home in far east Dallas, Tex., Thursday night, and was then shot and killed by police when he pointed his gun at officers and witnesses. Christian Patrick DeHart, 22, an Army reservist, was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting in the garage of a home in south Tulsa, Okla., early Friday. Jose Alfredo Rodriguez, 32, was shot and killed in an apartment complex in Wasco, Calif., Thursday night.

A woman was shot and wounded during a possible home invasion in Amarillo, Tex., early Friday. A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Walmart in League City, Tex., Thursday night, and his girlfriend, Roshanda Latrice Howard, 41, was charged with murder. A 30-year-old man was shot and killed in north Richmond, Calif., Friday afternoon, the second homicide in the area in 18 hours. Dominiquie Phillips, 26, was shot and killed after a fight in Fort Worth, Tex., late Thursday. A 34-year-old man was shot in the back and wounded in Lowell, Mass., Thursday night, and the motive might have been a “soured relationship” involving a woman.

Branden Cervantez, 30, was shot and killed after getting mixed up in a fight between two women that started in a Fresno, Calif., bar and spilled into an alleyway early Friday. A man was shot in the head and killed in the Dolfield neighborhood of northwest Baltimore, Md., Thursday evening. A man was killed in a shooting at an apartment complex on the south side of Fort Wayne, Ind., late Thursday, the fourth shooting in eight days. Garland R. Ruffin, 33, was found lying on a sidewalk suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in Baker, La., Thursday morning. A man and a woman were shot and killed at an apartment complex in Wixom, Mich., Wednesday, in what police believe may have been a murder-suicide.

23-year-old Terrell Jones was shot and killed at an apartment complex in southwest Charlotte, N.C., early Friday. A 26-year-old man was shot and killed and his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend were injured when the victim went to went to his former girlfriend’s Cincinnati, Ohio, home with a gun early Friday, sparking a firefight while three small children slept upstairs. Police believe a woman was shot in the shoulder by her husband in New Castle, Ind., Thursday morning. Ashley Calanche, 21, was found shot in the head and killed in a Santa Paula, Calif., park Friday afternoon, and a 31-year-old woman was arrested.

A 22-year-old man was shot and critically wounded in south Inglewood, Tenn., Thursday night. Two men, 38 and 49, were wounded in a shooting in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pa., Friday night. A man in his 20s was shot in neck and critically injured in west Philadelphia late Thursday. A man was shot to death in his home near Carthage, Ind., Friday, and his wife was taken in for questioning. Two men were shot in Gridley, Calif., Friday night, and the man deputies think is responsible said it was self defense. A man accidentally shot himself in the leg while fighting with his girlfriend in Flint, Mich., Thursday afternoon.

A 19-year-old man is in critical condition following a shooting in the South Ward of Trenton, N.J., Friday night. One person was shot and wounded at a gas station in northwest Roanoke, Va., Friday night, an hour after a “stop the violence” vigil ended. Two men, 26 and 57, were wounded during a drive-by shooting in Joliet, Ill., Thursday afternoon. A 22-year-old man was shot and killed in Milwaukee, Wis., late Friday. Gary Roberts, 57, was found shot to death in the basement of a home in Hancock County, Ind., Friday afternoon, and his wife, 55-year-old Elizabeth Roberts, was taken into custody.

21-year-old Bobby “BJ” Smith, a Tuskegee University student and father of a newborn, was shot to death at an unauthorized block party in Tuskegee, Ala., Friday night. Robert Inzar Jr., 47, was shot and seriously wounded by his brother during an altercation in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday night. Basheik Reddick, 22, was hanging out with a large group of people in a schoolyard in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, N.Y., Friday night when a van pulled up and someone shot him once in the chest, killing him.

Saturday:

A drive-by shooting injured a 5-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl in north St. Louis, Mo., Saturday afternoon. Police said a former Fort Bragg soldier who suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder fatally shot two of his neighbors and their dog in west Fayetteville, N.C., before turning the gun on himself Saturday night. A 15-year-old boy was wounded by gang-related gunfire while he was sleeping in his apartment in southeast Portland, Ore., early Saturday. Two people were shot in the torso and a third person was grazed in the face in a shooting near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y., early Saturday.

A woman and a teenage boy were hit by bullet fragments when a man followed someone onto the porch of a home and started shooting in Williamsport, Pa., Saturday afternoon. Two people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in the Old East Dallas neighborhood of Dallas, Tex., early Saturday. Three people were wounded in a shooting at a Denver, Colo., nightclub early Saturday. At another nightclub in Denver early Saturday, two people were injured in a shooting following a conflict of some kind. One man was shot and killed and another man was wounded when a fight erupted outside a Minneapolis, Minn., bar early Saturday.

Police discovered the body of 16-year-old Chauncey Brown face-down with a gunshot wound to his chest in St. Louis, Mo., Saturday afternoon, and another 16-year-old is in custody. A 16-year-old boy was shot while walking near Sandman Park in north Stockton, Calif., early Saturday. A 17-year-old girl was shot in the leg in the Hilltop section of Wilmington, Del., Saturday night. A 19-year-old man shot and killed himself in the parking lot of Gray-New Gloucester High School in Gray, Me., while several athletic events were taking place Saturday afternoon. A 55-year-old woman was shot and critically wounded at a bus stop in Hampton, Va., early Friday.

A 25-year-old man was shot and wounded inside an apartment in Quincy, Ill., Saturday afternoon. An 18-year-old man found shot to death on a West Harris County, Tex., street following a road rage incident Saturday afternoon. 22-year-old John Alexander was shot in the head and killed while sitting in his car in Springfield, Mass., early Saturday. Acquera Story, 26, was shot and killed while driving down a residential street in Valley, Ala., Saturday night. Tijuana Davis, 39, was shot and killed in her apartment in Niagara Falls, N.Y., early Saturday. Two teenagers were shot and wounded in a home in Garfield Heights, Ohio, Saturday night.

Kevin R. Wright, 27, was shot and killed at his Spring Hill, Fla., home during a dispute over money Saturday afternoon. Two men, 21 and 22, were wounded in a shooting in east New Orleans, La., Saturday afternoon. A 41-year-old was killed and an 18-year-old was wounded in a shooting at a home in Huntsville, Ala., Saturday night. A man died after being shot in east Hollywood, Calif., early Saturday. A 36-year-old woman was shot twice and wounded by her boyfriend in Lansing, Mich., Saturday morning. A man was shot while driving in west Omaha, Neb., Saturday night. Two people were shot during a home invasion and robbery in northwest Miami-Dade County, Fla., Saturday afternoon.

A 31-year-old man was fatally shot on the west side of Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday morning. A 27-year-old man was shot and wounded after his iPhone was stolen in southwest Philadelphia, Pa., early Saturday. 25-year-old Troy Johnson Jr. was gunned down during a robbery in front of his house on the west end of Louisville, Ky., early Saturday. A man was shot in the head and critically injured in the Jamacha-Lomita neighborhood of San Diego, Calif., Saturday night. Kameron Orr was shot twice in the back in York, Pa., Saturday night. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the leg in East Jackson, Tenn., Saturday.

A man was shot in the leg and wounded while sitting in a van on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, early Saturday. A man is in critical condition following a shooting in Baltimore, Md., early Saturday. A 50-year-old pizza delivery driver was shot and wounded during an attempted robbery in Baltimore County, Md., Saturday night. A 27-year-old man was shot and wounded in Woodlawn, Md., Saturday night. Michelle Hinton-Phenix, 34, was shot in east Toledo, Ohio, early Saturday. 25-year-old Samuel Breeze was shot in the torso and wounded in Greensboro, N.C., early Saturday. A man was shot and critically wounded in Syracuse, N.Y., early Saturday.

A man was shot and killed at a flea market in Mangonia Park, Fla., Saturday afternoon. Daniel Melton, 57, was shot to death in his Salem, Ore., home Saturday evening. Charles Artis and James Jones were shot and wounded during an attempted robbery in Wilson, N.C., early Saturday. A woman returning home from the grocery store with her two young children was grazed by a bullet when multiple shots were fired at her S.U.V. in Jacksonville, Fla., Saturday night. A 24-year-old man was killed and a 20-year-old man was injured in a shooting in Antioch, Calif., Saturday night. One person is in critical condition after being shot in Oakland, Calif., late Saturday.

A 39-year-old man was shot and killed by the owner of a Corpus Christi, Tex., convenience store Saturday evening after he tried to steal a 12-pack of beer; 52-year-old Rodney James Duve was later arrested for murder. A man was shot and wounded during a robbery at an auto servicing store in South Bend, Ind., late Saturday. A 45-year-old man was struck in the stomach by a bullet that ricocheted after someone opened fire outside a bar in downtown Brockton, Mass., early Saturday. Three people were shot and wounded in separate incidents in Milwaukee, Wis., on Saturday. Four people were shot, two critically, in Kansas City, Mo., early Saturday.

An 18-year-old man and a 34-year-old man were injured in two shootings in the 1st Ward of Paterson, N.J., Friday and Saturday. 33-year-old Jesus Antonio Macias was shot and killed by a man on a bicycle in front of a gas station in Sacramento, Calif., late Saturday. 71-year-old Dixie Chaney Jones was shot and killed during a robbery attempt in Las Vegas, Nev., Saturday night, and two teenagers were arrested. A man was wounded in a possibly gang-related shooting in Long Beach, Calif., Saturday night.

Sunday:

A 6-year-old boy accidentally shot and wounded himself while playing with a loaded pistol he found in his Rochester, N.Y., home Sunday evening. Lecameron T. Smith, 23, was shot on the street and left for dead on the south side of Fort Wayne, Ind., Sunday afternoon. A 14-year-old boy was accidentally shot in a park next to an elementary school while he and his friends played with a loaded gun in Memphis, Tenn., Sunday afternoon. A female motel clerk was shot in the head and wounded during an attempted robbery in Marion, Ill., early Sunday. A woman was shot in the arm and a man was shot in the foot in the Creekwood Community of Wilmington, N.C., Sunday afternoon.

A shooting at a car wash possibly perpetrated by a disgruntled employee left one person dead and two others wounded in Stafford, Tex., Sunday morning. A man was shot in the face and wounded in Sioux Falls, S.D., Sunday morning. A 23-year-old man was shot in the chest and a 28-year-old man was shot in the back in the Treme area of New Orleans, La., early Sunday. One person was shot and wounded in Flint, Mich., Sunday evening. Julie Rodriguez, 46, was shot to death in her driveway as she left for church in San Antonio, Tex., Sunday. A man was shot and wounded outside a nightclub in the Shockoe Bottom area of Richmond, Va., early Sunday.

An 18-year-old man was shot in the neck and killed at an apartment complex in Vallejo, Calif., Sunday night. An unidentified teenager was shot in the buttocks in Bridgeport, Conn., Sunday afternoon. A man was shot and killed while sitting in his car in the Algiers community of New Orleans, La., Sunday night. One person was shot following an altercation with two others in Deltona, Fla., Sunday night. Desi Kingsberry, 30, was shot in the head and killed in the front yard of his home in the town of Wyandanch on Long Island, N.Y., early Sunday. One person was shot and wounded at a home in Dillon, S.C., early Sunday.

Three men were shot and wounded while sitting in a car on the north end of Providence, R.I., early Sunday. A man in his 20s was sitting in a parked car near a playground when he was shot and wounded in east Providence Sunday morning. A 51-year-old man was shot in the back while trying to prevent the perpetrator of a car crash from leaving the scene in the Mountain View neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska, early Sunday. Six people were wounded in four shootings in Washington, D.C., during an 11-hour period over the weekend. A man was killed and 14 people were wounded in shootings across Chicago, Ill., from Friday to Sunday.

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 8,844 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.