The gun kicked back and recoiled over the girl's head as she was shooting. A bullet hit 39-year-old Charles Vacca in the head, according to a Mohave County Sheriff's Office press release.
An Uzi is an Israeli submachine gun.
Vacca was airlifted to a hospital after the accident happened, but he did not survive. The girl who shot him was from New York and on a trip with her family.
Sam Scarmardo, who operates the shooting range, told CNN affiliate KLAS: "We really don't know what happened. Our guys are trained to basically hover over people when they're shooting. If they're shooting right-handed, we have our right-hand behind them ready to push the weapon out of the way. And if they're left-handed, the same thing."
There are some questionable posts on the shooting range's Facebook page (they seem to have disabled embedding their public posts):
Another post enthusiastically boasts about a young boy shooting a gun. The video shows him firing shots in rapid succession:
Here's the clip on YouTube (the video cuts off before the fatal shot):
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