Assault rifle goes off, Ore. child killed
Source: Associated Press
Assault rifle goes off, Ore. child killed
| June 28, 2013 | Updated: June 28, 2013 3:35pm
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A 5-year-old girl has been killed and a woman wounded in Grants Pass after an assault rifle went off and shot them in an upstairs room of an apartment, police said.
A 30-year-old transient who was visiting the apartment was to be arraigned Friday on charges of manslaughter, assault and illegal possession of a machine gun, Chief Deputy District Attorney Lisa Turner said. The manslaughter charge alleges the killing was reckless, not intentional.
Police said Jon Andrew Meyer Jr. was arrested Thursday night without incident at the scene.
Turner said she could not divulge the make and model of the rifle, who owned it, or whether it was manufactured as a fully automatic weapon or modified later.
Police said Meyer was in a downstairs room of the apartment when the rifle went off there, and the girl and the woman were upstairs in the same apartment. The woman was not related to the girl, whose mother was also in the apartment, but not shot, Turner said.
A neighbor, Chris Mehl, told The Grants Pass Daily Courier (http://bit.ly/11Sry9a ) that he heard a gunshot, then a rapid firing.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Assault-rifle-goes-off-Ore-child-killed-4634613.php
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arriving in one...two...
Must have been the wind or something.
while championing the second amendment which is more important than thousands of innocent lives.
Chris Mehl from the link above:
When he left his house, he said, he saw the girl on the sidewalk. It appeared she'd been struck in the head, and he tried to stop the blood, he said.
There was no immediate explanation for how the girl got from the apartment to the sidewalk.
Guess we'll never know what happened, other than the most obvious facts. A girl is dead who was 'not in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in the right place at the right time.'
Just with the wrong people and there was nothing she could do about it since she was a child. RIP, little girl.
and ~11,000 gun homicides.
http://factcheck.org/2012/12/gun-rhetoric-vs-gun-facts/
Meh - that's just the price we pay for a bunch of 18th century guys - with no sense of how much "arms" technology would improve in three centuries - writing a rock-solid Constitution that can't be changed, ever. Can't be helped.
Oh well.
On a brighter note, one modern-day Hero has saved us from lawn darts - a Scourge that might otherwise have killed dozens of our Citizens and injured hundreds every year:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned
Thank God 18th century short-sightedness hasn't condemned our country to enduring the Danger of Lawn Darts:
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