Kiln 11-year-old dies after he's hit by bullet in dad's truck outside Vicksburg restaurant

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/8a113a22b2ea4f61ab37eec60666e272/MS--Shooting-Death/

Vicksburg police say they believe the shooting death of an 11-year-old boy from the Mississippi Gulf Coast was an accident.

Lt. Bobby Stewart told The Vicksburg Post that Christian B. Jordan, of Kiln, was shot in the chest Monday afternoon with a .22-caliber handgun while sitting with a friend in Christian's father's pickup outside Goldie's Trail Barbeque restaurant, near Interstate 20.

Stewart said Christian's father, Blue Jordan, went into the restaurant to pick up food and left his son and a 14-year-old, who's a lifelong family friend, in the truck.

Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said the 14-year-old was in the back seat and Christian was in the front. The older boy moved the gun as Christian turned to speak. It fired, and a bullet went through the seat into Christian.

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Don't touch. First and foremost. Don't touch a gun without adult supervision. Dangerous.

You wouldn't leave a kid alone sitting in the driver's seat of a running car without telling him he shouldn't play with it, would you?

Hunters should store their weapons safely. Leaving a gun unsecured in a vehicle with teenagers is particularly dumb.

:shrug:

opposite sides of the same sensationalic coin.

just my personal opinion but, neither type of this story needs to make the greatest page of DU.

vigilante justice is the suckage

yup

If necessary, I will call 911 first. But I will not endanger my family by wait for the police to protect me.

Some countries do that.

the vehicle? Seriously? Dad's a moron.

He left a loaded gun in a truck with two boys?

people. :patriot:

No, in fact it didn't.

and not the friend. That kid will have to live with the shock and grief for the rest of his life, but at least his parents are not burying him.

That sounds like kind of a dickish thing to do, unless they're pests or you're actually hunting. :shrug:

As much as I empathize with the father's loss, I do think he should be charged. Leaving a loaded unsecured firearm in the car is the height of negligence. More generally, it seems the boys weren't inculcated with a firearms-safety mindset either, at home or at school (ideally, it should be both)...

pretty common thing to do, much the same as crow or coyote hunting.

I wouldn't go out of my way to shoot them, but they are some fearsomely dangerous little creatures.

"hit by a bullet" "moved the gun...IT fired"

That gun should be arrested.

No, you crashed it. Just like in this case an honest statement would have been "I grabbed the trigger and negligently fired the gun."

the local paper runs this story in this wording knowing that this is a tragedy for the families involved. Plus if no one has been charged then the paper can't allege a crime.

Hence, 'the gun did it.'

then left it next to someone who wasn't his son?

Or is it simply easier for you to develop an opinion after seeing responses to your police-blotter copy/pastes?


skeered?