3 yr old Sniper Shoots Parents for Ordering Pizza Again

[Joe Guy]

He had motive and an opportunity. He should have been arrested...

Toddler wounds both parents with 1 shot from handgun
Updated 9:24 am, Sunday, February 1, 2015

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 3-year-old boy found a handgun in his mother's purse and fired just one shot that wounded both his parents at an Albuquerque motel on Saturday, police said.

According to investigators, the toddler apparently reached for an iPod but found the loaded weapon. Police believe the shooting to be accidental.

The bullet first struck his father in the buttock and then hit the right shoulder of his mother, who is eight months pregnant, police said. His 2-year-old sister was present but unhurt.

Both injuries are non-life threatening, authorities said.

Justin Reynolds told KOB-TV that he and his girlfriend, Monique Villescas, were getting ready to order pizza when the toddler fired the shot.

"It was like if I was to get up shake your hand and sat back down. That's how fast it happened," Reynolds said." All of a sudden we heard a gun go off and the next minute I realized my girlfriend was bleeding. Then, I sat down and realized I was shot, too."

Reynolds said he called 911 and grabbed some towels to try to stop her bleeding.

"I was more worried about my girlfriend than myself and anything else that was going on. And my son because I didn't know if he had shot himself or not," said Reynolds. "He was shocked and crying. It was traumatizing."

Police said in a statement that the father was treated and released, while the mother was hospitalized in stable condition.

"This case will be forwarded to the DA's office and pending charges of felony criminal negligence will be reviewed on both parents," (instead of the 3 yr old perpetrator?) Albuquerque police Simon Drobik spokesman said.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that the family was living in a room at the America's Best Value Inn where the shooting occurred.

Police said child care officials are taking care of the children.

Jonathan Hutson, a spokesman for the Washington-based Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said the shooting should serve as a reminder to all parents to keep guns locked away securely. (and to feed their children a variety of foods)

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[rubato]

The kid's efficient.


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[Gob]

Sign him up for a movie deal quick.

[BoSoxGal]

I hate when they call shootings like this 'accidental' - it's criminal negligence. In prosecution we are trained to never call a DUI crash an 'accident', because it's criminal negligence. Same here - the toddler only got his hands on that weapon because the parents were criminally negligent.

Someone needs to update the style book.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Both hit? What was this - the Grassy Knoll Motel?

[Econoline]

[MajGenl.Meade]

There's a meaningful point somewhere, I bet. Are we to encourage the terrorists to alter the game plan? Or perhaps step down security efforts? Or encourage USian toddlers to emigrate? Many more Americans have been killed on the roads by people ignoring traffic regulations than by toddlers - exponentially more, at a guess. Perhaps we can get the toddlers to gun down scoff-laws?

[Joe Guy]

They've got you fooled. Those toddlers are members of a terrorist organization known as 'The Terrorist Twos'. Very dangerous. Many of them live with their parents in trailers in the Midwest.

[Long Run]

Don't they live in sleeper cells?

[MajGenl.Meade]

you two!

I see - they are members of The Terrible IIs-ists

[Lord Jim]

Two can play this game:



ETA:

The amazing thing is this thread is two days old and no one's chimed in yet with the ever thought-provoking and clever, "The only thing that can stop a bad three year old with a gun is a good three year old with a gun."