{"id":269599,"date":"2026-04-15T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269599\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:38:44","slug":"4-year-old-child-allegedly-killed-2-year-old-brother-while-in-car-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269599\/","title":{"rendered":"4-year-old child allegedly killed 2-year-old brother while in car alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. (WKRC) – A 4-year-old allegedly shot and killed his 2-year-old brother after the pair were left alone in the family’s truck.<\/p>\n

According to a release <\/a>from the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office, the department received a 911 call at around 10:26 a.m. on April 10 from a “citizen who was out for a walk reporting a young child had sustained a gunshot injury at a nearby residence.”<\/p>\n

Despite life-saving efforts from first responders, the child succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

“Preliminary information indicates three young children were placed in a vehicle in the driveway of their home, and in the brief time their parent returned back into the home to grab an item they forgot, a four-year-old in the vehicle located a loaded firearm in the center console,” the release read. “That firearm discharged, striking a two-year-old sibling victim. No one else was injured.”<\/p>\n

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The family involved was reportedly cooperating with police during the investigation. Nobody was arrested in the immediate aftermath, and police said no foul play was suspected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOND DU LAC COUNTY, Wis. (WKRC) – A 4-year-old allegedly shot and killed his 2-year-old brother after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-269599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}