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Police: Boy, 11, fatally shoots 12-year-old brother at Ohio property in target-shooting outing
An 11-year-old boy killed his 12-year-old brother in eastern Ohio, where the man they were with had gone target shooting with a friend, Sheriff Dale Williams of Carroll County said Tuesday. The shooting occurred while the boys, from Moore, S.C., were visiting rural Lee Township, about 50 miles west of Pittsburgh. The sheriff said three loaded weapons were on a picnic table Friday afternoon when the younger boy picked one up and it fired. The older boy was struck in the head and died at the scene. Sheriff Williams said no one was charged.
http://www.startribune.com/police-boy-11-accidentally-shoots-and-kills-brother-12/330824841/
An 11-year-old boy killed his 12-year-old brother in eastern Ohio, where the man they were with had gone target shooting with a friend, Sheriff Dale Williams of Carroll County said Tuesday. The shooting occurred while the boys, from Moore, S.C., were visiting rural Lee Township, about 50 miles west of Pittsburgh. The sheriff said three loaded weapons were on a picnic table Friday afternoon when the younger boy picked one up and it fired. The older boy was struck in the head and died at the scene. Sheriff Williams said no one was charged.
http://www.startribune.com/police-boy-11-accidentally-shoots-and-kills-brother-12/330824841/
Bobby Jindal: It was the dad's fault
Jeb Bush: Stuff happens
Ben Carson: Dead children are less important than owning guns
Wayne LaPierre: The 12 year old should have had a gun
Gun nut: What caliber? Revolver or semi?
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"IT fired" "no one was charged" (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2015
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Tommy_Carcetti
(43,164 posts)1. That's impossible. I refuse to believe the story.
Clearly the gun was a "self defense firearm" and incapable of harming anyone unless it was being used in self-defense against an aggressor.
thesquanderer
(11,982 posts)3. Maybe the picnic table was using it in self-defense. (n/t)
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. Another family destroyed by Gun Zealots
That poor boy now has to live with the memory of killing his brother for the rest of his life.
I grew up with a kid that had that exact thing on his conscience and he was utterly shattered.
-none
(1,884 posts)4. The owner of that self-discharging firearm needs to be charged with manslaughter.
He put a deadly weapon out where a child could find it and one did.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)6. My sympathies to the family.