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Stella, Missouri, was also the home of Rowan Ford, murdered in 2007.
Sheriff: Handgun in home results in childs death (Joplin Globe)
Sheriff: Handgun in home results in childs death (Joplin Globe)
the rest at Joplin Globe link aboveSTELLA, Mo. A 3-year-old girl is believed to have come across a loaded handgun Saturday in a bedroom of her parents home, and accidentally shot and killed herself, according to McDonald County authorities.
Maycen A. Coberley was shot about 1 p.m. Saturday inside her familys home on a Stella mail route between Longview and Goodman in northern McDonald County. Coroner Tracy Dowd said the daughter of Christopher and Shawna Coberley was taken to Freeman Hospital West in Joplin where she was pronounced dead a short time later.
The death remains under investigation. Dowd said an autopsy was conducted by the Greene County medical examiner Monday at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. The coroner said she had yet to rule on the cause and manner of death.
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Sheriff Robert Evenson said investigators have determined that no foul play was involved. He said all indications are that the child accidentally shot herself with a 9 mm pistol.
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