Guns now No. 2 cause of accidental child death in county

[SecularMotion]

A 4-year-old Harris County boy died after shooting himself in the head Tuesday, adding to a toll that's become the second leading cause of accidental death for children in Harris County.

Only motor vehicles account for a larger percentage of accidental deaths, according to Harris County Institute of Forensic Science statistics. Of the 1,074 minors who died in Harris County from 2011 to 2014, about 1 in 8 was killed by a gun, according to the data.

That's an average of 27 child fatalities by guns a year for that span.

Two minors have already died from accidental gunshots in 2016 - Bryson Hernandez, who shot himself in the head at his grandparents' Cypress-area home early Tuesday, and a 15-year-old who was shot by his older brother on Jan. 16 in southwest Houston.

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