A Baltimore man has been charged with the fatal shooting of his 2-year-old daughter on Sunday.
Police said Charlee Gamble was brought to a hospital just after 7 p.m. with a gunshot wound, WJZ reported. Doctors could not save her.
Police arrested her father, 28-year-old Christopher Gamble, on Wednesday, charging him with first and second degree murder, child abuse resulting in death, and gun charges.
According to investigators, Gamble and his daughter were alone in the master bedroom of his home when the shooting took place. Detectives said he gave conflicting accounts of what happened on the night of the shooting.
He reportedly told police that he left a gun, which he admitted buying illegally, on a TV stand and implied Charlee shot herself in the head with it, according to WBAL.
When investigators executed a search warrant at the home and Gamble’s vehicle, they found no guns or blood evidence, according to charging documents. Gamble told police he didn’t know what happened to the gun or where it could be located.
He said he bought the gun for $600 despite being barred by law from owning a gun, WJZ said.
The charging documents say Gamble brought Charlee to the hospital, handed her over to staff, and then left. He later returned with the girl’s mother but was wearing different clothing.
“There is nothing more tragic in the world than the loss of a life of a child, especially that young,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Monday afternoon before Gamble’s arrest, according to WBAL. “This is something that should not have happened, and we have to make sure that any and everybody that could be will be held accountable. We should be looking at the adults around that child. There is no way on Earth that a 2-year-old baby should be gone from a gunshot wound suffered in a place full of people that love that young person.”
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[Featured image: Christopher Gamble/Baltimore Police Department]
