TIMELINE: Children accidentally shooting themselves with guns in their homes

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In 2018, four Houston-area children have accidentally shot themselves after finding a gun in their home.

• Jan. 27, 2018 - A 4-year-old boy in Texas City found a small handgun in a bedroom and fatally shot himself.
4-year-old accidentally shot
• Jan. 28, 2018 - In northwest Houston, a 6-year-old boy found a 9mm pistol in his apartment and accidentally killed himself.
6-year-old dies after shooting himself with siblings at home
• July 8, 2018 - A 2-year-old boy found a 9mm pistol in his Acres Homes residence and fatally shot himself.
2-year-old boy died from self-inflicted gunshot wound, police say
• July 10, 2018 - The 4-year-old stepson of a Harris County Sheriff's Office sergeant accidentally shot himself with a gun in his Hockley home.
Toddler injured after self-inflicted gunshot is son of HCSO Sergeant