Four-year-old boys in different states were involved in two separate shooting incidents in the last four days, with tragic results.
On Saturday, a Tennessee boy discharged a pistol at a sheriff's deputy's wife, killing her instantly. On Monday, a New Jersey boy left a 6-year-old neighbor in serious condition after a rifle fired at his head.
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Thu 11 Apr, 2013 10:37 am
Obviously we need more guns in schools to prevent school shootings.
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Accidental shooting injures Butler student in El Dorado
El Dorado police are investigating a shooting where a private security officer reported that while he was handling a gun on duty, he accidentally fired it. The round went through a wall, causing a minor injury to an 18-year-old college student.
This one is just begging for mother in law jokes -
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A 42-year-old Madison female arrived at Skyline Medical Center by private vehicle with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The injury was deemed life-threatening by the doctor and the victim was transported to Vanderbilt. The victim is now critical but stable and is expected to survive.
The husband and the victim's future son-in-law state that the victim was accidentally shot by the future son-in-law at their home on Cheron Drive.
Child shoots, kills Tenn. deputy's wife at weekend cookout
NASHVILLE, TENN. -- Authorities say a 4-year-old who gained access to a loaded gun during a family
cookout has shot and killed the wife of a Wilson County sheriff's deputy.
The shooting took place Saturday evening inside the Lebanon home of Deputy Daniel Fanning.
Authorities say the deputy and a male relative had been looking at firearms in a bedroom when
the 4-year-old picked up a loaded gun on a bed and fired it once, hitting Josephine Fanning.
The 48-year-old wife -- the two had just married last year -- was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was called to investigate.
"He was actually showing another person that was there at the house some of his weapons he had
locked in a secure gun safe," Sheriff Robert Bryan told CBS Nashville affiliate WTVF-TV.
The sheriff said no one saw Deputy Fanning's 4-year-old nephew walk into the room.
"Split second, we're talking about seconds for that kid to walk in that room unbeknownst to them,
grab that gun and it goes off." Sheriff Bryan told the station.
The 4-year-old picked up the loaded gun and fired it once, hitting Josephine Fanning. She was
pronounced dead on the scene.
Ada County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an accidental shooting that took place Saturday at the Fort Boise Gun Show at Expo Idaho.
Deputies were called to the Garden City site just before 3 p.m. for a report of a gun fired inside the exhibit hall. Witnesses told emergency dispatchers a man had been hit in the eye.
Deputies say the firearm that caused the injury was part of a vendor's display at the gun show. A person attending the show picked up a large-caliber handgun and unintentionally fired it into a display, not realizing a round had been left inside.
Officers say the single round hit two other guns in the display. Flying shrapnel hit two bystanders.
Accident wounds gun shop owner
April 13, 2013
The Altoona Mirror
A Juniata gun shop owner was accidentally shot while repairing a rifle, according to Altoona police.
Robert E. Buchanan, owner of Pioneer Gun Shop, 615 N. Second Ave., was taken to Altoona Regional just before 10 a.m. Friday after he was struck in the torso by a 7.62 by 39 mm round, said Altoona police Lt. Jeffrey Pratt.
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Sun 14 Apr, 2013 01:59 pm
@parados,
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This is a thread to keep track of all those stupid human tricks people do with guns.
I would have sworn when you started this thread, that you wouldn't be able to keep it going and would "run out of ammunition". I understand that statistically within a large population size these types of accidents are probably insignificant in comparison to others, but damn... it's pretty sad and a bit appalling that they are happening even enough to keep this thread going.
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Sat 20 Apr, 2013 09:43 am
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Man Shoots Self In Abdomen Attempting 'Cross-Draw' Move
An Oakmont Drive man required hospital treatment after accidentally shooting himself in the abdomen about 6:15 a.m. Sunday, sheriff's Deputy Michael MacDonald said in a report.
Deputies responded to Takoma Regional Hospital on a report of an accidental gunshot wound.
I'm not sure if this is better than accidentally shooting your future mother in law but it might well be.
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Yorktown, Va. – A 23-year-old Yorktown woman was accidentally shot on Sunday when her boyfriend accidentally discharged his gun while putting it away.
According to Newport News Police, they responded to the 200 block of Beechmont Drive in reference to a shooting and found 24-year-old Ashton Wells carrying his girlfriend and advising she had been accidentally shot.
Kyle D. Tackett, formerly of Muncie, is accused of shooting his brother-in-law in the neck
Tackett said that he and his brother-in-law had been “joking around,” apparently while the defendant was holding his .40-caliber handgun, and that the teenager asked him, “Why don’t you just put one through my face?”
The defendant said he pointed the gun “in the area of James Daniels’ head and squeezed the trigger, when the gun went off and (Daniels) fell to the floor in the bathroom.”
A 52-year-old man is recovering at a Lincoln hospital Sunday night after accidentally shooting himself in the leg.
It happened at Big Shots Indoor Shooting Range shortly after 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
Lincoln Police said the 52-year-old was taking a concealed carry class, when he went to put the .22 caliber gun in a holster on his hip and it went off.
A retired police officer accidentally shot himself when he dropped his gun inside a Des Plaines school while attending his grandson's Boy Scout troop meeting.
Police and school officials said the man was carrying his licensed, loaded gun inside a fanny pack Monday evening at Iroquois School, and that the gun went off and a bullet struck him in the leg after he dropped the pack.
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Sat 20 Apr, 2013 12:13 pm
A pair of shootings with 6 year old victims.
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DALLAS — A six-year-old child is in critical condition after shooting himself in the chest.
Police said it happened Saturday night in the parking lot of Ridge Pointe Fellowship Church, 11440 Ferguson Road, in East Dallas.
Police said the little boy got into a vehicle, found a loaded handgun, and pulled the trigger.
An accidental shooting took the life of a 9-year-old Oregon City girl on Sunday afternoon.
Oregon City police said Shayla May Shonneker was in the backyard of her house at 2012 12th St. at about 5 p.m. on April 14 when a handgun her mother’s boyfriend, 32-year-old Joseph Wolters, was handling inside the house accidentally fired through the wall, striking Shayla in the head.
The 7-year-old boy who was shot Friday, died at 6:44 p.m. Saturday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski said Sunday morning.
In an email from the Sheriff's office, the boy was identified as Gavin Brummett from northeastern Saline County.
The sheriff's office reported that Gavin had been with his brothers and his father, Rodney Lee Brummett Jr.,shooting a Master Piece Arms semi-automatic 9 millimeter handgun. Kochanowski confirmed Sunday that Gavin was shooting the gun. Rodney
Brummett reported that he heard two rapid-in-succession shots. When Rodney Brummett looked at Gavin, he observed the injury, and rushed his son to the hospital in Salina. Gavin was later flown by air ambulance to Wichita.
During a gun show Saturday afternoon at the National Guard armory in Hastings, a handgun was accidently fired. Nobody was injured.
During the show, a vendor was showing a customer a handgun. The customer asked the vendor how to disassemble or field strip the weapon. The vendor inserted his magazine and ended up accidentally loading a round into the chamber.
When he went to strip down the weapon, he had to pull the trigger. He pointed the gun at the floor, pulled the trigger, and a shot rang out.
