A 5-year-old boy is dead after he accessed an unsecured gun inside an apartment on Chicago's South Side on Sunday afternoon.

The shooting happened around 1:17 p.m. in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the Kenwood neighborhood.

Police were called to the apartment complex after the boy suffered a gunshot wound to the head inside an apartment. A police source told CBS News Chicago the boy accidentally shot himself.

He was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, where he was in critical condition and later died.

The family told a gun victim's advocate that the boy started kindergarten just last week. A gun was recovered at the scene.

"This one in particular is tragic, sudden, family in shock, just shocking to us all," Pastor Donovan Price said.

Price works with victims of violence

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