Yet another...

[Gob]

An Ohio family is in mourning after an 11-year-old boy was accidentally shot dead Wednesday by his 15-year-old cousin.



Ashton Nicholson, of Kent, was pronounced dead at the scene of his relative’s Franklin Township home, authorities said. The teen who shot the weapon remains unidentified because he is a minor.

Authorities told NewsNet 5 that no charges will be filed against the 15-year-old boy, but police are looking into what laws may have been broken by the parents - who were not home - for not having the gun secured.

Investigators told the station the shooter knew where to find the gun in his parents’ bedroom

He was playing with it in the basement when a single shot was fired that killed the popular middle schooler, police said. The death was ruled an accident.

‘I have nothing to indicate that it was an intentional act, nothing to indicate that whatsoever,’ a Portage County police spokesperson told the station.

Authorities also made public the horrifying 911 call made by the shooting suspect’s older brother.

‘My brother just shot my cousin on accident... Oh my God, he shot him with a pistol,’ the mortified caller told the dispatcher.

[rubato]

Authorities told NewsNet 5 that no charges will be filed against the 15-year-old boy, but police are looking into what laws may have been broken by the parents - who were not home - for not having the gun secured.

Investigators told the station the shooter knew where to find the gun in his parents’ bedroom

He was playing with it in the basement when a single shot was fired that killed the popular middle schooler, police said. The death was ruled an accident.

When a gun is left unsecured in a home it is not an accident. It is an intentional act.

The parents should burn in hell. There is no excuse for this.


Strict liability is the answer.



yrs,
rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

Kent - wonder if my grandson knew the boys of either family

One dead in Ohio

[Sean]

Authorities told NewsNet 5 that no charges will be filed against the 15-year-old boy, but police are looking into what laws may have been broken by the parents - who were not home - for not having the gun secured.

Investigators told the station the shooter knew where to find the gun in his parents’ bedroom

He was playing with it in the basement when a single shot was fired that killed the popular middle schooler, police said. The death was ruled an accident.

When a gun is left unsecured in a home it is not an accident. It is an intentional act.

The parents should burn in hell. There is no excuse for this.


Strict liability is the answer.



yrs,
rubato

I agree 100%!

[dgs49]

Hindsight is 20/20. I'm sure the parents thought they had taken adequate precautions.

If this incident causes other such parents to re-think and become neurotically careful (which should be the norm), maybe the kid will not have died in vain.

Tragedy.