A 5-year-old girl was killed and an adult wounded after an assault rifle went off in a Grant’s Pass, Ore. apartment late Thursday, according to local media reports.
The Josephine County District Attorney’s office on Friday accused Jon Andrew Meyer Jr., 30, of “recklessly” causing the death of the 5-year-old and causing “serious physical injury” to a 44-year-old woman, according to the Grant’s Pass Daily Courier.
Police told the Associated Press that Meyer fired an assault rifle from a downstairs room of the apartment, while the victims were upstairs in the same apartment. A neighbor, Pia D’Ambrosio, told the Daily Courier that Meyer told police the gun “fell down and went off.”
Meyer will face a grand jury on charges of manslaughter, assault, and unlawful possession of a machine gun, according to the Daily Courier.
