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MORE THAN 6,000 CHILDREN KILLED, HURT BY GUNFIRE IN 2022: REPORT  
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Bill Hutchinson and Ahmad Hemingway
December 26, 2022
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_ Guns have become the leading cause of death for American kids _

, Natalie Chaney

 

More than 6,000 children have been killed or injured in the United
States by gunfire in 2022, the most ever recorded in the nine-year
history of a nonprofit that tracks shooting incidents.

With five days to go in the year, the Gun Violence Archive
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17 years old or younger have been killed or hurt in gunfire this year,
surpassing the 5,708 killed or hurt 2021.

The Gun Violence Archive said it was the most children to die or be
injured by gunfire in a single year since it started keeping track in
2014.

At least 306 children 11 years old or younger have been killed by
gunfire in 2022, according to the website. Another 1,323 children
between the ages of 12 and 17 died in shootings, according to the
website.

[PHOTO: Medical professionals listen as Dr. Roy Guerrero, a physician
from Uvalde, Texas, speaks at a press conference on gun control on
Capitol Hill, Dec. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C.]

Medical professionals listen as Dr. Roy Guerrero, a physician from
Uvalde, Texas, speaks at a press conference on gun control on Capitol
Hill, Dec. 7, 2022 in Washington, D.C.  Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

In the first year the Gun Violence Archive began to track shootings in
2014, it recorded 2,859 children 17 years old or younger killed or
injured by gunfire.

The grim statistics come after a 3-year-old girl in Kansas City,
Missouri, was killed on Christmas Eve in what police suspect was an
accidental shooting, Kansas City ABC affiliate KMBC reported
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The child shooting deaths in 2022 also include 19 students, all 11
years old or younger, killed in a mass shooting
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24 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

One of the youngest victims killed by gunfire this year was
5-month-old Cecilia Thomas, who was shot in the head
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sitting in a car in Chicago during a June 24 drive-by shooting.

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