{"id":427763,"date":"2026-09-06T04:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427763\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:52:41","slug":"young-girl-dies-after-accidental-shooting-with-unsecured-gun-in-fort-worth-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/427763\/","title":{"rendered":"Young girl dies after accidental shooting with unsecured gun in Fort Worth, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young child is dead in Fort Worth after police say she got hold of an unsecured gun and accidentally shot herself.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded at about 7:45 p.m. to a shooting call at an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Revolutionary Way, near I-20 on the south side of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/fort-worth-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort Worth police<\/a>, the girl was believed to be between three and five years old and appeared to have suffered an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>Officers provided medical aid before the child was taken to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fortworthshooting.png#.png\" alt=\"fortworthshooting.png \" height=\"391\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Texas<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the child was able to gain access to an unsecured firearm. Police called the shooting a &#8220;tragic accident&#8221; and urged parents to secure their guns and use gun locks.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth police said the department had just wrapped up a month-long gun safety program with Cook Children&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who witnessed the shooting or has surveillance video that could help investigators to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young child is dead in Fort Worth after police say she got hold of an unsecured gun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2238,430,27],"class_list":["post-427763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-police-department","tag-north-texas","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}