This kid accidentally shot his instructor!

Family vacations are the best! It is the time where you get to bond with your family and at the same time have fun! But it seems that the vacation of this girl was turned into a nightmare after a horrifying incident.

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A firearms instructor has died after he was shot by a nine-year-old girl when she fired an Uzi at a shooting range in the Arizona desert. The girl and her parents are from New Jersey and were at the shooting range as a stop during their vacation.

Charles Vacca, 39, a father and retired army general, was teaching a young girl how to fire an Uzi at Bullets and Burgers range in White Hills, Arizona on Monday when she lost control of the gun.

Vacca, a father and Army Reserve Veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, had worked at the range for 18 months and was a "stellar" instructor with no disciplinary problems.

An instructor has died after he was shot by a nine-year-old girl when
she fired an Uzi at a shooting range in the Arizona desert.

At first, everything was quite going well. The paper reported that the girl had successfully fired the 9mm weapon several times in “single-shot”. But When Vacca changed the setting to “fully automatic” mode,

The girl then fired the gun and it recoiled on Vacca's side which hit him in the head. The instructor was promptly airlifted to the hospital following the incident. Unfortunately, He died Monday evening from the serious injuries.

Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy told NBC News that while an autopsy on Vacca was not complete, he could confirm that it was a single round that was the 'immediate cause of death.

Social media was questioning about the tragic accident, with most people posting comments as to why a nine-year-old was allowed to fire an automatic weapon.

Lawmakers had remained quiet about the incident, no law were broken because Arizona law prohibits minors from possessing a firearm unless they are accompanied by a parent, guardian or an instructor, among other exceptions. Deputies said the 9-year-old girl was at the shooting range with her parents.

Meanwhile, the wife of the veteran gun instructor remained heartbroken as she and her children struggled to comprehend the unusual tragedy.

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