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Four-year-old dies of gunshot wound

Lafayette Police
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UPDATE: Police say the shooting in which a child died Thursday was an accident.

Another child was involved, and the four-year-old boy who died was accidentally shot, Lafayette Police say.

Police were called to the 100 block of Bryan Street around 10:30 a.m. to investigate an injured child. The child was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where the child was pronounced dead.