Sean Smith was looking for the Nintendo games his mother had hidden when he found a .38 revolver in his father’s underwear drawer. It was June 5, 1989, and Sean, a cherubic, blue-eyed 10-year-old, had just returned from school in Miramar, Florida, a working class suburb outside Miami. With him was his eight-year-old sister, Erin. The two were extremely close — Sean couldn’t remember a day without her. They had the same chubby cheeks and wore their dirty blonde hair in similar banged cuts.
Sean picked up the gun and waved it around, then took aim at a louvered glass window. He later recalled that Erin, seeming frightened, tried to run out of the room. She’d just passed by the window when Sean pulled the trigger. The bullet went in through her shoulder and lodged in her heart.
[For more of this story, written by Monica Potts, go to http://www.thetrace.org/2015/1...florida-gun-storage/]
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