{"id":2235,"date":"2025-08-27T01:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2025-08-27T01:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:13:53","slug":"woman-charged-after-her-5-year-old-brother-finds-gun-fatally-shoots-himself-in-kenwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged after her 5-year-old brother finds gun, fatally shoots himself in Kenwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A woman has been charged after her 5-year-old brother found a gun that may have belonged to her and fatally shot himself with it, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Danya Bell, 29, faces a charge of child endangerment causing death, police said. She was arrested Sunday, about three hours after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-year-old boy <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2025\/08\/24\/5-year-old-boy-shot-in-kenwood-apartment\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">fatally shot himself<\/a> in his head about 1:15 p.m., after finding a gun in his sister\u2019s purse while she was showering inside an apartment in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in Kenwood, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bell, the boy\u2019s 29-year-old sister, is a concealed carry holder with a firearm owner\u2019s identification card. She had her gun in a black zippered purse on a bed and was showering when she heard a loud noise coming from one of the bedrooms in the apartment, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>The child was taken to Comer Children\u2019s Hospital, where he was initially listed in critical condition, police said. He was pronounced dead at 5:06 p.m. Sunday, according to the Cook County medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Bell is due in court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2025\/08\/26\/woman-charged-5-year-old-slaying-kenwood\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged after her 5-year-old brother found a gun that may have belonged to her and fatally shot himself with it, police said. Danya Bell, 29, faces a charge of child endangerment causing death, police said. She was arrested Sunday, about three hours after the shooting. The 5-year-old boy fatally shot himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}