Detroit boy, three, fatally shot by 11-year-old brother: report

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

(Reuters) - A 3-year-old Detroit boy was fatally shot by his 11-year-old brother on Monday afternoon while the two played with a gun in their backyard, The Detroit News reported.

The two were inside a car in the yard when the shot was fired, the newspaper said, citing Detroit police.

Detroit Police Officer Nicole Kirkwood confirmed to Reuters that a 3-year-old was shot in the head by an 11-year-old in a vehicle, but could not provide the younger child's condition or their relationship.

No names were released, and no other information was immediately available.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/detroit-boy-three-fatally-shot-11-old-brother-213350698.html

[pipoman]

1. Does this say it was fatal in the title and first paragraph

Then in the 3rd paragraph it says the child's condition isn't known?

[Little Tich]

2. Um, yes, the same thing has been reported elsewhere.

It's a bit strange though, when it's been reported that the boy was killed. Perhaps the Detroit Police are just very tight-lipped...

[niyad]

3. reading other accounts with the same bizarre statements.

then there is this in the LV paper:

. . . .

The Detroit News noted that two others were killed in the city in recent months while someone played with a gun - a 14-year-old boy fatally shot a 14-year-old girl in January, and a 9-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in December.

. . .


http://www.reviewjournal.com/trending/the-feed/11-year-old-playing-gun-shoots-kills-3-year-old-brother-detroit

[niyad]

4. better info here:

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/08/03/child-shot-at-home-on-detroits-east-side/

[840high]

5. How did they get the gun?

[LokiandMala]

6. It appears that it was given to him

By his father.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2015/08/03/three-year-old-fatally-shot-brother/31068833/

[840high]

9. Good God - too young.

Says the father "showed them the gun."

[LokiandMala]

10. Way too young.

I am guessing the boy did not get the ammunition and load it himself.

I hope the father is charged criminally.

[onehandle]

7. Freedom isn't free.

It costs the life of a 3-year-old and decades of counciling for an 11-year-old.

Worth every tear to gun culture.

[LuvLoogie]

8. Perhaps we could approach this another way

Couldn't we lobby insurance companies. Appeal to their bottom line. Create firearm injury clauses in the policies. Something along the line of. Coverage is denied if injury is caused by unregistered and or undeclared firearm in home, on property or person. Insured must declare ownership of firearms.

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. All Quiet in East Gunistan

[valerief]

12. Was he shot with a knife? We're told they're dangerous. No, not a knife. Maybe shot with

a fork. A fork can be a weapon. It can poke your eye out. No, not a fork. A spoon, perhaps? Shot with a spoon? No, no spoon shots. What else could he have shot the baby with?

A gun? No, not a gun. Guns don't shoot people, we're told. Guns don't take lives, they save them, we're told. I'm sure that little baby would tell you that, too, if he wasn't shot to death. With a goddam gun.

[samsingh]

15. fools or worse believe that guns don't kill people

it's fox news logic

[passiveporcupine]

13. This beautiful child is gone because daddy had to show off his gun

Or maybe he thought he was teaching them something. It certainly wasn't gun safety.

My soul is so tired of this.

[Joe Chi Minh]

14. No. Never happen. Not in America. The NRA see that you're protected.

[Sunlei]

16. so sad. Kids will touch and play with guns, even if parents think they will never. It should

be a Felony charge to any adult gun owner who leaves a gun unattended in car or home to be stolen or even worse played with by minors.

[romanic]

17. More irresponsible gun ownership.

It doesn't cost much to store a gun and lock it; but by the same token, in Detroit the violence is so bad most sleep with the gun unsupervised at the side of their bed. Kids can easily reach for it and take it out to play "Cops and Robbers". R.I.P. little guy.

[Arugula Latte]

18. If only the 11 year old boy had been armed, he could have shot the toddler first!

Moar gunz!!!! We need MOAR!!!

[tblue37]

19. The 11-year-old did kill the toddler. nt

[Arugula Latte]

20. I guess I misread. In that case the toddler should have been armed!

Guns for everyone. It's the American Way.