Father of six-year-old who shot herself in court

well tonight a Cleveland man is still in jail hours after facing a judge in connection with the death of his six-year-old daughter Nevaeh Benson her family knew her as Nene she died Saturday after after a family member they say she got after family members says that she got a hold of her father's gun newsChannel fives Michael Baldwin joins us now from our newsroom with what happened in court today Michael do the Edmund Benson was in court today and you could see the look in his eyes wishing he could turn back time and make sure his gun could not get into the hands of someone so precious to him his daughter Edmund Benson at first goes through the motions as he's brought before a judge to face charges after his six-year-old daughter got a hold of his gun Saturday and shot herself in the face and that's when it hits a father whose daughter is dead not because of a stranger a criminal or sickness a daughter who is dead because she got her six-year-old hands on a gun hands barely big enough to grip it she got a hold of it and shot herself outside the house where she died the family has set up a makeshift memorial where the candle still shines bright the teddy bear symbolized the love of a child the family describes Naevia as a bright and awesome kid Nene wanted to be a boxer when she grew up but sadly she lost her fight this past Saturday the family said she went upstairs to grab something for her sister and she never made it back down it was no gun sound it was none all we heard was somebody fall on the floor ruin us theirs first her daddy ran downstairs and he's throwing swimming and help we all ran out there Edmond was not supposed to have a gun because of previous felony convictions we understand Benson is still in jail on a $10,000 bond we did not see a new court date for him we do want to measure the Cleveland Police Department does offer free trigger locks we got this in the fourth district headquarters just a couple of miles from where when the girl was shot on your side I'm Michael Baldwin newsChannel five

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Published: Tue Jan 22 2013