HOUSTON – Houston city leaders said a new gun-violence data dashboard reveals a troubling trend in Houston: accidental shooting deaths involving children are increasing. For one Deer Park mother, that statistic is painfully personal.

Nearly eight years ago, 14-year-old Adrienne Lambert was killed when a friend unintentionally fired a gun that had been left unsecured inside a home.

“He picked up his dad’s gun,” said Lambert’s mother Marentha Sargent. “His dad took the magazine out, but he did not clear the chamber. And so he pointed it at her and then that was it. "

Sargent said the grief never goes away. She remembers Adrienne as a bright, joyful teen.

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“She was very spunky,” said Sargent. “Her laugh was just th

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