Phoenix Police Department detectives were called to a neighborhood in south Phoenix to investigate an accidental shooting that tragically left a 5-year-old child dead.
According to the Phoenix Police Department, just after 9:00 p.m., on June 3, 2025, officers were called to a behavioral hospital in the area of 1200 South 7th Avenue for a stabbing incident. As officers got to the scene, they learned the victim, a 5-year-old female was shot in her home near 500 West Wier Avenue and was driven to the behavioral hospital by family members seeking medical aid. The victim was taken by ambulance to a local trauma center where she was pronounced deceased.
Officers then responded to the original crime scene at 500 West Wier Avenue and contained the scene for investigators. Detectives responded and took over the investigation, learning the 9-year-old brother of the victim had accidentally shot the victim inside their home.
During the investigation, detectives learned the rifle used in the shooting belonged to 33-year-old Irvin Ramos-Jimenez, the children’s father, who was later arrested and booked into jail for possession of a weapon by a prohibited person.
We have more cordless hole punchers (CHP) than people, enough idiots and irresponsible adult-children (armed and not) to start a whole other Idiocratic country, so it beggars belief that Eddie Eagle isn’t mandatory starting at Kindergarten. We have sex ed, drug ed, tolerance ed, and driver’s ed, but no g*n safety ed? It’s practically negligent. For those unfamiliar w/ Eddie Eagle, it’s an NRA developed and sponsored program that doesn’t advocate for CHPs, rather it teaches 4 basic rules, with respect to unattended CHPs, specifically to young children: Stop. Don’t touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.
I would recommend, if you have children and CHPs in the house, 1) demystify them – let them handle unloaded CHPs until they are bored with it however long that takes, and 2) keep them locked up (the CHPs, not the children) – if you have a boom stick and can’t afford a long safe, get an inexpensive strong box and keep the bolt in there.
Apologies for having to use euphemisms; my last two posts were automatically censored.
We have more guns than people, enough idiots and irresponsible adult-children (armed and not) to start a whole other Idiocratic country, so it beggars belief that Eddie Eagle isn’t mandatory starting at Kindergarten. We have sex ed, drug ed, tolerance ed, and driver’s ed, but no gun safety ed? It’s practically negligent. For those unfamiliar w/ Eddie Eagle, it’s an NRA developed and sponsored program that doesn’t advocate for guns, rather it teaches 4 basic rules, with respect to unattended firearms, specifically to young children: Stop. Don’t touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.
I would recommend, if you have children and guns in the house, 1) demystify them – let them handle unloaded guns and let they handle them until they are bored with it however long that takes, and 2) keep them locked up (the guns, not the children) – if you have a rifle and can’t afford a rifle safe, get an inexpensive strong box and keep the bolt in there.
nothing good comes of this – there are no DO OVERS..
That Eddie Eagle isn’t mandatory from kindergarten, in a land with more guns than people and more gun culture than health culture, is not only unreal it’s downright neglect. We have drug education, sex education, tolerance education, but no gun safety education? It beggars belief. Regardless of one’s position on the 2A, the guns are here; teach children to respect them or at least leave them alone, unless with a parent or guardian.
I’ve always had guns and I always will have guns, so the logical thing to do was to take the mystery out of them. After thoroughly teaching my kids what guns look like and what they can do, I cleared them, put them all on the table and told the kids to pick them up, look them over, pull this, and rack that until they were bored with them. I did it several times and told them they could look at whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, under my supervision. It doesn’t take much or much time for children to lose interest in an object that doesn’t do much on its own. To my kids, guns are no more mysterious or exotic than car keys, steak knives, or tire irons. They’ve all grown and moved on and there was never any issue with it, but – teens being teens – I kept them locked away, regardless.
It’s not hard to keep children safe, but they (and parents) must learn their respective duties and obligations: Stop. Don’t touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult.
Rest in peace, little angel. I hope the boy can learn to forgive himself.