As these things go, the incident was pretty benign. In Des Moines, Iowa, a 13-year-old boy, Jesse Guevara, along with his friend Alec Osborn, were visiting a third friend at the friend’ s godfather’s house. They found several guns that were loaded, and Guevara accidentally shot Osborn in the shoulder. The shooting was recounted in our February 25 Gun Report, linked to a lengthier account in the Des Moines Register. Our brief encapsulation ended by reporting that Osborn had been released from the hospital. And that appeared to be that.

Except that it wasn’t. Over the weekend, the Des Moines Register published a sad story about the aftermath, a reminder about the lingering effects of gun violence even when the seeming damage isn’t all that terrible. In this case, the man who owned the loaded guns, who was said to be close to all three boys, committed suicide. And while Osborn appears to be on the mend, Guevara is “upset, stressed out, guilty and scared,” according to his mother. At the funeral of the godfather, he “broke down,” and has asked whether the suicide was his fault. It is something, said his mother, that Jesse “is going to take with him forever.”

Here is the weekend’s sampling of gun violence:

The 4-year-old son of a Jackson County, Mich., Sheriff’s Deputy accidentally shot and killed himself Saturday night. Authorities said it happened around 5 p.m. at the deputy’s home. The names of the deputy and his son have not been released.

—WLNS

A man is dead after his gun apparently accidentally discharged at a shooting range, killing him. Officers called Saturday at 9:23 a.m. to the St. Charles Sportsman’s Club in Waldorf, Md., and found 61-year-old Patrick Allen Richards suffering from a gunshot wound. Richards’s gun apparently discharged, striking him once in the upper body. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

—Houston Chronicle



Toni Voss, 27, was shot and killed by her boyfriend in Adams, Wis., early Saturday. 28-year-old Coleman Dybul called authorities around 1:50 a.m., saying he was asleep in bed at a residence when Voss startled him, prompting him to shoot her with a shotgun he kept near his bed. Authorities arrested Coleman on suspicion of first-degree reckless homicide. A young child also was in the residence at the time of the incident but was unharmed.

—Wausau Daily Herald

One man is dead and another in stable condition following separate shootings Sunday that took place an hour-and-a-half apart in Oakland, Calif. The fatal shooting occurred about 11:06 a.m. after someone shot an unidentified man. The second shooting took place at 12:21 p.m. The victim in that incident was also driven to an area hospital where he was listed in stable condition. All suspects fled and a motive was not known for either shooting.

—Mercury News

A 16-year-old is fighting for his life after he was shot Saturday night in Richmond, Va. Neighbors and businesses owners say a teen party may have been going on in a nearby vacant building. Witnesses said the victim was shot three times. He was taken to VCU Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Investigators have not identified the victim and they haven’t said what led up to the shooting. A suspect remains at large.

—NBC12

A 15-year-old boy was shot in the hip in northeast Wichita, Kan., early Sunday morning. Police said the boy was walking down the street just after midnight with a friend when a car drove up behind them. Several individuals got out of the vehicle, and one pulled a black revolver out of his waistband and shot the 15-year-old male in his right hip. The 15-year-old was rushed to Wesley Medical Center in critical condition.

—KSN

A 24-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Miami on Sunday afternoon. A witness described hearing a “high-powered rifle.” Neighbors said gunshots are heard in the area almost every day, and that they are considering buying guns themselves for protection.

—WSVN

Three teenage boys were injured, one critically, in what authorities say was a drive-by shooting in South Los Angeles. A shooter opened fire Saturday night in the Vermont Square neighborhood, hitting two 15-year-olds and one 17-year-old. They were taken to the hospital.

—Mercury News

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 2,453 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.