5-Year-old California Boy Dead - Lengthy Investigation Underway to Determine If Foul Play Or Negligence Played a Part

Local news reports A 5-year-old boy who found a gun in his home appears to have accidentally shot and killed himself, a source within the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday on the condition of anonymity. The incident happened at 5:21 p.m. Tuesday in the 31000 block of Wolfskill Avenue in the rural Nuevo area of Riverside County, officials said. "In this area, when something like this happens, it impacts the entire community," one Nuevo resident said of the tight-knit area. Detectives and forensics investigators spent nearly a full 24 hours in rural Riverside County trying to determind whether any foul play or negligence was involved in his death. The boy's grandfather was in the home at the time of the shooting and was being questioned Wednesday afternoon, but a Riverside County sheriff's official told NBC4 Wednesday morning the boy appears to have accidentally shot himself in the home. In case you didn't catch the sarcasm in my title, I'll spell it out for you.  Whenever a 5-year-old gets his hands on a gun and kills himself there is ALWAYS foul play and negligence involved.