(4 Y.O.) Ash Wembley Accidentally Shoots, Kills Himself With Gun He Found In Liquor Store

jpak

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(4 Y.O.) Ash Wembley Accidentally Shoots, Kills Himself With Gun He Found In Liquor Store

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/boy-accidentally-shoots-k_n_906709.html

A four-year-old boy has died after accidentally shooting himself with a gun he found in a liquor store.

Ash Wimbley, of Cedar Lake, Indiana, was found around 10:15 a.m. Thursday inside of Tubby's Wine and Spirits in Beecher, Illinois. According to the Chicago Tribune, he found a loaded shotgun behind the store counter and shot himself in the head with it unintentionally.

He was rushed to the St. James Hospital and Health Centers in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the Associated Press reports, but was pronounced dead there later that afternoon.

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rfranklin

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Sat Jul-23-11 10:05 AM
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1. If only he had attended an NRA training class...

this tragedy would never have happened.

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damntexdem

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Sat Jul-23-11 10:12 AM
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2. Yeah, he would have killed everyone else in the store ...

not himself. ;-)

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PavePusher

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Sat Jul-23-11 04:22 PM
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7. Is that how it works now? I missed another memo, huh? n/t

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3waygeek

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Sat Jul-23-11 10:17 AM
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3. Something doesn't sound right here...

A 4-year-old shoots himself in the head with a shotgun? A shotgun would be way too long for him to reach the trigger.

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bellcrank

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Sat Jul-23-11 11:08 AM
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4. Who the hell allowed a child into a liquor store in the first place???

This story is fishy.

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PavePusher

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Sat Jul-23-11 04:21 PM
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6. Depends on the make/model.

Numerous models of double-barrel "coach guns" and defensive pump-actions are certainly short enough for a larger toddler to accomplish this... but then you pretty much have to hypothesize a loaded, cocked gun with any safety disengaged, plus a badly unsupervised kid in a liquor store.... Many levels of failure here, going by the available info. Possible, but very improbable. At this point I am guessing that "there is more to the story".... which may or may not make the news later.

P.S. Don't rule out the possibility of an illegally shortened shotgun, or even a fully legal AOW one.

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gravity556

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Sat Jul-23-11 03:41 PM
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5. Why

in the purple fuck would someone let a 4 year old into a liquor store? And then let him fucking run around unsupervised?

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ileus

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Sat Jul-23-11 09:58 PM
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8. Humm....where was the parent? Where was the clerk?

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