A 3-year-old boy shot himself in a western Minnesota home and died in what officials are calling an accident.
A caller to law enforcement at about 5:40 p.m. Sunday reported the shooting in a home in Oak Valley Township, about 10 miles south of Wadena, according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office.
The wounded 3½-year-old boy was taken by emergency responders to a hospital in Wadena and died that night, the Sheriff’s Office said Monday afternoon.
An online fundraising page started on behalf of the family identified the boy as Rudy Sweere.
There is no word yet from the Sheriff’s Office about the circumstances leading up to the shooting.
Other people were in the home at the time, the Sheriff’s Office said; there have been no arrests.
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