HOUSTON (AP) — A 19-year-old Texas man is dead after police say he accidentally shot himself while posing for a selfie with a gun.
Deleon Alonso Smith died of a gunshot wound to the throat about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at an apartment in southwestern Houston.
Investigators say Smith had found a gun and was taking pictures of himself and a cousin holding the weapon and posting them to online when the gun discharged, killing Smith.
Investigators say the cousin was in another room when the gun fired.
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So few words; so many lives.
Darwin Award Winner, Posthumous Division.
Feel sorry for him and his family, but really when you have an unfettered gun culture these events are a predictable certainty. (It’s just like Global Warming, you can be certain it’s happening even though you can’t predict the weather with 100% accuracy).
This is what happens when society treats guns like toys. I grew up around guns my entire life (rural, country life and all that) and it would never have occurred to me do something like this with a gun.
The story title makes this incident appear funnier than it actually appears to be.
Anyone recently lose a gun?
Any kind of liability? - just kidding.