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4-year-old shot herself at Sam's Club with Grandmothers Gun Incident captured on Video Survellance.
WIS- Columbia - is reporting that a 4 year old child removed a gun from her grandmothers purse and shot herself at the Sam's Club. The child was found in critical condition and is now receiving treatment at the Palmetto Health Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina
WIS News 10 Columbia, SC
Police are calling it an accident after a four-year-old girl grabbed a gun out of her grandmother's purse and shot herself in the Harbison Blvd. Sam's Club.
The child was in critical condition at Palmetto Health Richland Memorial Hospital.
Investigators tell WIS News 10's Stewart Moore they believe the child was sitting in her grandmother's shopping cart when she pulled a small-caliber handgun out of her grandmother's shopping cart and accidentally shot herself in the chest.
The entire incident was captured on surveillance cameras near the store's pharmacy.
CPD spokesman Brick Lewis says the grandmother has not been charged with a crime, and no other injuries have been reported.
Lewis says the child had to undergo emergency surgery at Richland Memorial.
Store officials say the store was closed after the shooting, but was expected to reopen by 1:00pm.
We'll post more as it becomes available. For Video and Follow-up to this story see WIS News Ten in Columbia, SC
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