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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:43 AM Jun 2014

Teens face possible charges in fatal gun accident

Source: Daily Herald

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — Salt Lake County prosecutors say they're considering possible criminal charges against two 16-year-old boys in connection with a gun accident that killed a friend.

The boys and 17-year-old Harley Jarrett were looking at a .45-caliber revolver in the closet of a Cottonwood Heights home when it went off Wednesday, shooting Jarrett in the head. The boys thought the gun was unloaded.

District Attorney Sim Gill told The Salt Lake Tribune that while a final decision on charges is pending, his office has already decided the two teens would be prosecuted in the juvenile court system.

Read more: http://www.heraldextra.com/news/state-and-regional/utah/teens-face-possible-charges-in-fatal-gun-accident/article_27778542-36b1-506d-8367-f22b2e0ef92c.html

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Teens face possible charges in fatal gun accident (Original Post) SecularMotion Jun 2014 OP

I enjoy your post and find safeinOhio Jun 2014 #1

Guns achieving their primary purpose. nt onehandle Jun 2014 #2

Why charge the teens and not the adults who left a loaded gun abelenkpe Jun 2014 #3

Sounds like you think if someone steals my car and runs someone over, I should be arrested Doctor_J Jun 2014 #11

Apparently police think it is a stolen gun DreamGypsy Jun 2014 #4

More details -- they "fired through several of the rounds" DreamGypsy Jun 2014 #5

Thanks for the details Hangingon Jun 2014 #8

Yet another "responsible" gun owner billh58 Jun 2014 #6

If the teens hadn't stolen it they would be alive. hack89 Jun 2014 #13

It's always an accident. Of course, if the gun weren't there, there could be no accident nor valerief Jun 2014 #7

If they hadn't stolen the gun it would not have been there. Nt hack89 Jun 2014 #14

I like the way they were "looking at it" when it "went off". Mind control? /nt mwb970 Jun 2014 #9

Guns are loaded. Always. mahannah Jun 2014 #10

Who Cares.....There Will Be Another One Tomorrow SoCalMusicLover Jun 2014 #12

safeinOhio

(32,674 posts)

1. I enjoy your post and find

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:03 AM

Jun 2014

that no comments are needed. Screw those looking for an argument.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

2. Guns achieving their primary purpose. nt

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:03 AM

Jun 2014

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)

3. Why charge the teens and not the adults who left a loaded gun

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:06 AM

Jun 2014

somewhere where they could access it?

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

11. Sounds like you think if someone steals my car and runs someone over, I should be arrested

Reply to abelenkpe (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 05:34 PM

Jun 2014

Sounds bizarre.

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)

4. Apparently police think it is a stolen gun

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:19 AM

Jun 2014

The two boys were arrested for investigation of possession of a stolen firearm and one boy was arrested on suspicion of negligent homicide.

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)

5. More details -- they "fired through several of the rounds"

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:27 AM

Jun 2014

From Cottonwood Heights teen killed when gun is fired at party:

A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed at a party celebrating the end of the school year Wednesday as some teens were passing around a stolen gun.

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A teenager who lives at the home had secured a revolver stolen during a residential burglary earlier in the week, said Cottonwood Heights Police Lt. Mark Askerlund. Investigators did not yet know if the teens at the party were involved in the burglary.

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"The boys went to a closet area in the basement and one of them produced a handgun. They were showing it to each other, passing it around, and fired through several of the rounds," Askerlund said.

Police believe the boys thought the gun was unloaded. The initial rounds "cycled through what probably were some empty cylinders until it came into the live round. That round discharged, striking one of the juveniles," Askerlund said.