Nassau Teen Dies While Playing With Loaded Gun

UPDATED at 7:20 p.m.: A 15-year-old boy was killed after police say he accidentally shot himself with a handgun in Glen Cove on Wednesday night.

According to authorities, three juveniles were playing with a loaded handgun when one of the boys fired a shot, striking himself inside a Williams Street home at 8:02 p.m.

The boy, identified as Derek Cosme, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say the gun was owned by a Nassau County licensed pistol holder.

A GoFundMe page was created to support the teen's family. "My baby brother, Derek also know by many as Go-Go, has left behind an amazing mother Luz, and his four sisters, Tahessha, Shadarra, Kristal, and my self, Jasmine, who he adored and loved so much," his sister Jasmine Elise Vasquez wrote on the donation page. "He was only 15 years old taken suddenly from us. He was very outgoing, friendly, smart and just loved by so many."

The teen's older sister Shadarra Vasquez told Newsday that her brother never played with a gun before the accident. Cosme would have entered Glen Cove High School as a junior in September, the publication says.

The investigation is ongoing.

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