Braylon Robinson shooting: Three-year-old boy shoots baby dead in latest US child gun accident

Police are investigating who had left the gun unattended in the house

Authorities investigate the scene after a shooting involving two children on Sunday April 12, 2015 (AP)

A one-year-old baby was killed yesterday after he was shot in the face with a gun fired by a boy, three, who had found it inside a house, police said.

The victim has been identified as Braylon Robinson, from Cleveland, Ohio. The relationship of the two boys is not yet known and an investigation into the incident is currently taking place.

The tragic loss comes after a two-year-old toddler pulled a gun out of his mother’s handbag in Walmart and shot her dead in Idaho last December.

In another high-profile case in September, a nine-year-old girl killed an instructor by firing an Uzi at an Arizona shooting range.

The series of fatalities caused by firearms – which citizens are permitted to possess in the US – have sparked concerns as to how easy it is for American children to get hold of weapons.

The Last Stop firing range in Arizona, where a nine-year-old girl accidentall killed a gun instructor

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams told journalists that investigators are trying to determine where the gun that killed Braylon came from.

He said that the force will seek to press charges against the person held responsible for bringing a gun to the house and carelessly leaving it within the reach of a child.

His mother could be heard screaming from the back porch of the house after finding out that her baby died. She has lived there with at least three small children, neighbours said.

“It’s a sad day for Cleveland,” Williams told reporters. “This fascination that we have with handguns, not just in this city but in this country, has to stop. This is a senseless loss of life.”