BSO investigates fatal shooting of 6-year-old child in Tamarac

TAMARAC - The Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting that left a child dead Monday afternoon at a gated community.

BSO got the call around 3:30 p.m. about a shooting at a Sun Vista Gardens condo in the 5600 block of Rock Island Road in Tamarac.

When authorities got there they found a child who had fatally shot himself.

Images from Chopper 4 showed emergency vehicles at the scene.

Yellow tape was put up to keep everyone out. Anxious residents were trying to get home.

CBS News Miami cameras caught images of a distraught woman being led away by deputies.

"We heard the sirens," Carlos Mejia, who had been working nearby, said. "I saw a lady crying with another child. Guns are dangerous, especially when children are around."

It is unclear if the child was home alone at the time of the shooting.

No further details have been released and the investigation is ongoing.