An 11-year-old boy fatally shot his best friend Tuesday afternoon while his mother mowed the lawn outside their home, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Muskingum County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Lecocq said deputies were dispatched to the Frazeysburg, Ohio home of Jen Miller just after 3:30 p.m. Miller’s son had called 911 to report that he accidentally shot the friend he’d been playing with inside the house.
The two boys found a loaded revolver more than 10 minutes after Miller began mowing her backyard, according to the newspaper. The friend was pronounced dead at the scene of a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Other details, including who owned the gun and where the boys found it, were not clear. Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz said the incident was under investigation.
One more time, folks… If a gun is unloaded and safely locked away, it’s of no use to repel the imaginary 3:00 am intruder. On the other hand, if it’s readily accessible, it’s many times more likely to end up putting a bullet into a family member, friend, or neighbor.
Now explain to me again why you think you need to have a gun in the house.
Wow, just heartbreaking. At 11yrs old you know what a gun is, and what it can do. Poor kids, they had access to a gun now one is dead, while the other lives with this for the rest of his life. Two lives for one gun.
I hope they pursue the souce of the gun.
Instead of spending millions upon millions of dollars to attack our Constitution, people like Bloomberg and Moms Demand action and so on should really spend that money on educating people on the safe storage of weapons. The NRA offers plenty of material that address guns safety, the Bloombergs of this world could help advertise them to the masses.
This young boy obviously has uneducated parents who thought it safe to leave a loaded and unsupervised gun in the house. Which is a good thing to have, but an adult can’t be stupid about it and expect an eleven years old to know better. Let’s spend the money to educate parents and adults, not playing Don Quixote against the windmills.
Hey Pissboy…maybe they should create training films like we had in High School for Drivers Ed? You know the ones with the dead and mangled bodies caused by improper use of the vehicle. Instead, they’ll feature morgue shots of mangled dead children, mothers, fathers, etc. with holes in them.