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| Boy, 11, charged with killing 8-year-old girl after argument about puppies |
| 2015-10-07 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] An argument between two children over puppies turned tragic Saturday when an 11-year-old boy allegedly killed his 8-year-old neighbor with a shotgun, according to authorities in Jefferson County, Tenn. Pop should be held accountable for not controlling his weapon. The 11-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder in the girl’s death, Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig told The Washington Post. Authorities aren’t releasing the names of either child, but Latasha Dyer told ABC affiliate WATE that her daughter, MaKayla, was killed. An 11-year-old is incapable of first-degree murder. At that age he's incapable of understanding the consequences of his actions. “She was a precious little girl,” Dyer said through tears in an on-air interview with WATE. “She was a mommy’s girl. No matter how bad of a mood you were in, she could always make you smile.” Little children should be protected from such things, but the responsibility is with the 11-year-old's dad. You're assuming something... Each of the children had a puppy, the sheriff said. The 11-year-old “wanted to see the 8-year-old’s, and she said no, and then he went and retrieved a gun,” McCoig said. Not the sort of thing that drives a rational adult to reach for his rosco. Why try to make the child responsible? The boy fired the 12-gauge shotgun from inside his house, striking the girl as she stood in her yard, the sheriff said. The gun, which was stored in a closet without locks, belongs to the boy’s father, McCoig said. The moral of this story: lock your weapons. My son's a state policeman. He keeps his pistol in a locked safe. A few years ago one of his colleagues didn't and his child shot somebody while waving it around. The dad was held responsible. He's not longer a trooper and I believe he did jail time. When first responders and police arrived at the scene Saturday night, they found the girl “lying on the ground with a gunshot to the chest,” McCoig said. She was taken to an area hospital, where she died from her wounds. A shotgun wound from inside the house into the next yard. Ten or fifteen yards? On Monday, a judge ordered the boy to be held in a juvenile facility pending his next court hearing Oct. 28; the case could later be transferred to adult court, McCoig said. It would be a gross miscarriage of justice if it was. But this is the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, so it might be. MaKayla will be interred Thursday at the Haun Cemetery in Luttrell, Tenn. Her family will be receiving guests at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Cooke-Campbell Mortuary in Maynardville, and her funeral will be held at 7 p.m. Her poor parents! |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Sounds like a nice backdrop for a video game..."M"-rated, of course. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2015-10-07 14:13 |
| #1 The sociopaths we shall always have with us---doesn't mean we have to tolerate a whole culture of them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-10-07 04:01 |