“I use it to protect my family”
This is tragic and unsurprising
- A 4-year-old boy found a loaded gun in his family’s house and fired it through the front door, killing his 5-year-old sister and seriously wounding another boy, authorities said.
An older sister had seen the child pick up the semi-automatic handgun in the house Saturday night and had rushed the other children outside to try to protect them, but the bullet went through the door, hitting them, said Prince George’s County police spokeswoman Cpl. Diane Richardson.
The two wounded children stumbled across the street and collapsed in a neighbor’s driveway, she said. Kimberly Brice was pronounced dead after arrival at a hospital.
Here’s a question out there for you guys : Have you ever seen an article about an intruder being shot by a gun-weilding father? Even if that urbean legend turns out to be true, kids killing each other with guns is so common that this story isn’t big news.
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for me, one of the saddest things about this whole story is a quote from a neighbor …”Travis said she knew incidents like this occur across the region, but she was surprised that it had happened in her usually peaceful block. This kind of stuff is just something that happens, she said.? Has it really come to this? People saying that this sort of thing just happens as if there’s nothing that can be done about it? That’s truly frightening.
Comment by patricia — September 29, 2003 @ 8:30 am