11-Year-Old California Boy Fatally Shoots Himself During Zoom Class
An 11-year-old California boy died on Wednesday after shooting himself during a Zoom distance-learning class.
According to KTLA, the young boy identified as Adan Llanos, was found with a head wound at a home in Woodbridge, in Northern California’s Central Valley, shortly after 11 a.m. He was in a sixth-grade Zoom class for Woodbridge Elementary School when he shot himself. Deputies told KOVR-TV that the boy had his microphone and camera off when he fired.
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It was reported that the young boy’s sister was also in a distance-learning class in another room at the time of the shooting. When she found him, she immediately alerted her teacher and ran to a neighbor’s house for help. San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies eventually went to the home after receiving several calls about the shooting, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The boy was taken to a hospital where he died from a “self-inflicted” injury. The report didn’t provide other details or indicate where the boy obtained the gun.
The Lodi Unified School District is offering counseling and bereavement support to students and staff members:
“Our thoughts are with the family affected by this terrible tragedy,” Superintendent Cathy Nichols-Washer said in a post on the district’s Facebook page.
Adan’s aunt, Alejandra Carillo, has created a GoFundMe page “to be able to help my family with the funeral expenses.”
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