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An Arizona gun range instructor was accidentally shot dead by a 9-year-old girl he was showing how to fire an automatic Uzi, police said.

The little girl’s parents were using cell phones to film the tutorial when tragedy struck around 10 a.m. Monday, Sam Scarmardo, the manager at the Arizona Last Stop gun range, told the Daily News.

Charles Vacca, 39, was shot in the head when the Uzi recoiled in the girl’s hands, sending “the weapon over her head,” the Mohave County Sheriff’s Officer said. The Lake Havasu City resident died at a Las Vegas hospital around 9 p.m. Monday.

Facebook Charles Vacca, 39, was accidentally shot in the head Monday morning by a 9-year-old girl learning to fire an Uzi.

Authorities examined the phones as part of the investigation into the shooting, Scarmardo said.

Vacca spent about 18 months as an instructor at the White Hills range, which sits near the Nevada border on the western edge of the state and bills itself as the “Grand Canyon West tourist headquarters.”

bnonews/MOHAVE CO. SHERIFF'S OFFICE via Youtube Vacca is seen showing the little girl how to handle the Uzi. bnonews/MOHAVE CO. SHERIFF'S OFFICE via Youtube The girl takes one shot before the instructor encourages her to let it go 'full auto.' In this video taken on Monday, August 25, 2014, at an outdoor shooting range in Dolan Springs, Arizona, a 9-year-old girl is receiving instructions on how to use an Uzi submachine gun before accidentally shooting her instructor, 39-year-old Charles Vacca. He later died of his injuries. bnonews/MOHAVE CO. SHERIFF'S OFFICE via Youtube The shooting lesson went horribly wrong Monday at the Arizona Last Stop gun range.

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“It’s tragic news,” Scarmardo told The News. “He was like a brother. We’re a very tight-knit organization.”

Only certain ages are allowed to shoot at the range, but “the young lady fit within that limit,” Scarmardo said, without elaborating further.

Facebook Shooters at the range can fire high-powered weapons like a Barrett .50-caliber rifle.

Open for nearly 13 years, the range, which allows shooters to fire machine guns and high-powered weapons like a Barrett .50-caliber rifle, has never had somebody accidentally shot, “never had a scratch on anybody,” Scarmardo said.

Apparent video of the incident was obtained Tuesday by BNO News.

Facebook Charles Vacca (right) was killed when the Uzi held by a 9-year-old girl recoiled, shooting him in the head.

“We have to keep that held in, otherwise the gun won’t fire, OK?” Vacca is heard telling the girl, who is wearing pink shorts as she grasps the gun. “Turn this leg forward, there you go, just like that. Alright, go ahead and give me one shot.

“Alriiiiiight!” Vacca says.

Google Arizona Last Stop is a restaurant and gun range near the state’s western border with Nevada. Facebook Shooters take aim and fire at the Arizona Last Stop gun range.