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Fla. man dies after girlfriend accidentally shoots him playing with gun

His girlfriend picked up the pistol, pointed it at him and fired it, hitting him in the chest; he was pronounced dead at a local hospital

BOCA RATON, Fla. — A 22-year-old man died Sunday after being shot in the chest with a gun his girlfriend was playing with.

CBS 12 reported that a friend brought a pistol over to Justin Holt’s apartment and his girlfriend and friends practiced dry shooting it. One friend reloaded the gun and put it on the counter, according to police.

Later, Holt’s girfriend, Erin Steele, picked it up, pointed it at him and fired it, hitting him in the chest, according to the report.

Holt was taken to a local hospital where he soon died, police said.