Father pushing for gun safety after 5-year-old son killed [Video]

NEWAYGO COUNTY, Mich — The father of the five-year-old boy police said was shot and killed by his six-year-old cousin in Newaygo County said his son’s death could have been prevented if the adults in the home had followed proper gun safety.

“He was like a little jokester. He liked running around. Liked making people laugh, just being a weirdo. Definitely a little Daredevil, loved spending time with his sister,” said the father, Domynic Dykstra.

The shooting of five-year-old Braxton Dykstra happened on April 1 in Garfield Township in the home of his grandparents on his mother’s side.

“And my daughter, it just hit her last night that my son will never be back. She understood that, you know, he, he was dead. But last night, I held her tight because she told me that she couldn’t sleep without her Bobby. And so I held her tight. And I told her, I …

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