You read the items in today’s gun report, and you know what your first thought is? Thank goodness no children died. But rare is the day when no children are shot. Today we have two examples – a 16-year-old shot near a high school in Northern California and a 5-year-old boy shot in the knee while leaving a daycare center. In both cases, you wonder about the lingering aftereffects, both physically and emotionally.

Here is today’s sampling of gun violence:

A shooting near Antioch High School in Northern California sent a 16-year-old boy to the hospital and locked down several nearby schools Wednesday morning. A 16-year-old boy, who was not a student, turned up at a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound. He is is expected to make a full recovery. The search for a suspect continues.

—KTVU

A 5-year-old boy and his 26-year-old father are recovering after being shot while leaving a daycare center in Holyoke, Mass., Wednesday afternoon. The child was shot in the knee and will recover, as will his father. An investigation is ongoing.

—WSHM

A would-be robber was killed after his victim turned the tables and shot him in Miami Tuesday night. The armed suspect, Milton Devon Johnson, 19, approached the victim, Wilbert Tillman, outside an apartment building and demanded his belongings. Johnson shot Tillman in the hand, and, fearing for his life, Tillman pulled out a handgun and shot Johnson multiple times. “The robber loses in this case,” Miami Police spokeswoman Kenia Reyes said.

—NBC 6



A farmer shot and killed a 42-year-old fugitive in rural Sumner County, Iowa, Monday evening. Joseph Lamasters, who had a warrant for a probation violation stemming from drug charges, was at large in the rural county. The farmer and his son decided to check a relative’s outbuildings and found Lamasters hiding in one of them. As he attacked, the farmer shot him.

—NBC 3

Arlington, Tex., police are investigating an overnight shooting that left a man injured in his apartment. Officers responded around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday to find a man shot in his stomach. He was transported to the hospital with injuries that don’t appear to be life threatening. Detectives are trying to determine if the suspect knew the victim, but the investigation is ongoing.

—Dallas Morning News

Eddie Hernandez, 20, was dropped off at Doctors Medical Center Hospital in Modesto, Calif., just after midnight Tuesday with a gunshot wound. He later died. Police discovered that the incident occurred outside the city limit. No suspects have been identified, but the victim and the person who drove him to the hospital are gang members.

—The Modesto Bee

A man was found dead at the scene of a deadly shooting this afternoon along Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh. The shooting reportedly stemmed from a significant argument and gunfire was exchanged.

—CBS Pittsburgh

An Iraq War veteran and Fort Carson soldier was shot to death in his Widefield, Colo., home Saturday, and a juvenile family member is suspected of pulling the trigger. Authorities are refusing to provide additional details about the shooting death of Sgt. James F. Fleming, 36, saying they didn’t want to jeopardize the investigation.

—The Gazette

A 20-year-old woman and a man between 20 and 30 years old were found shot to death in an apparent homicide in an apartment in Phoenix, Ariz., early Wednesday morning. A 4-month-old baby was found alive. Police said the deaths were not the result of a murder-suicide, and whoever committed the murders was on the loose.

—CBS 5

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 2,506 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.