Laura Leslie and Maggie Brown, WRAL — The majority of child injury deaths in North Carolina last year were due to gunfire, officials said on Monday. Child deaths associated with firearms nearly doubled in 2020, officials said. Nearly 100 children lost their lives to guns, either by accidental gunfire or intentional suicides. Sixty-four child deaths were caused by someone else firing at the child and more than 30 deaths were self-inflicted, new state data shows. Most of the deaths were among teenage boys.

https://www.wral.com/gun-violence-suicides-leading-cause-of-nc-child-injury-deaths-in-2020/19886029/