Cartier Smith, age 3, male, Black, was found with a single gunshot wound inside a southeast Columbus apartment on Kodiak Drive after getting hold of an unsecured handgun. Police were dispatched at 8:55 a.m., and medics rushed him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later. Investigators determined that the child accessed a firearm that had been placed between a mattress and the wall, within reach when he entered the bedroom that morning. A Columbus Division of Poli
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