16-Year-Old Dies After Apparent Accidental Shooting

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Mount Vernon District – The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy of a 16-year-old boy. At about 7 p.m. Thursday, our officers were called to a home in the 8400 hundred block of Del Norte Court in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County after the apparent unintentional discharge of a firearm. Preliminarily, the investigation has found a teen was handling a firearm on a bed when the gun accidentally went off, striking him in the upper body. The boy was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

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