(CNN) There have been 209 children killed or injured by a gun in 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which compiles shooting incident data.

In the past two days alone, two 4-year-old boys, one in Illinois and another in Ohio, were killed by gunfire.

A child killed in an Illinois shooting

The Peoria Police Department responded Monday to a call of 22 rounds of shots fired.

When they arrived, the officers found two shooting victims in the parking lot of an apartment complex -- one of whom was the 4-year-old, the department said.

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