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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsteens take turns shooting at each other while wearing body armor. 1 charged with murder Florida
https://www.newser.com/story/319122/cops-teen-killed-friend-while-testing-body-armor.htmlOne Florida teenager is dead and two more are facing potential long prison sentences after they took turns shooting at each other, relying on an armored vest to protect them, police say. Christopher Vining and Colton Whitler, both 17, are being charged as adults in the death of 16-year-old C Jr., Fox 35 reports. They were arrested on Thursday, four days after the shooting.
Investigators "determined that Vining and Broad were taking turns shooting at each other while wearing a vest which contained a form of body armor," police in Belleview, around 55 miles north of Orlando, said in a news release. "Vining shot at Broad while he was wearing the vest, and he was struck."
Vining will be charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child with a firearm and Whitler will be charged with providing false information to law enforcement, police say. WKMG reports that according to arrest affidavits, Whitler initially claimed that unknown people had fired shots at the home the teens were in, but a fourth teen gave investigators video showing the teens shooting each other, with Broad shooting Vining once before they switched roles. Joe Vanhouten, an Army veteran who lives next door, says he saw "a teenage boy come outside all hysterical screaming" after the shooting.
"I was always taught from a young age you never play with guns," says Vanhouten, who describes Vining as a good kid and a typical teenager. "It's just a sad story all the way around," he says. Dr. David Thomas, a forensics professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, tells WESH that a lot of people don't understand armored vests. "The biggest misnomer is that they're bulletproof because they're not," he says. "They're ballistic vests and they're rated on scales of what type of bullet they'll stop." Police say Vining shot Broad a total of five times and one of the shots hit an area not covered by the vest
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teens take turns shooting at each other while wearing body armor. 1 charged with murder Florida (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Apr 2022
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XanaDUer2
(10,671 posts)1. Whut?
Aristus
(66,377 posts)2. Well, I guess they won't do that again...
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)3. It's Flori-duh
And does this kid bear more than a passing resemblance to Kyle Rittenhouse?
Raine
(30,540 posts)4. It was all fun and games till someone ended up
in a body bag.
PXR-5
(522 posts)5. Floriduh man strikes again! Nt
Diamond_Dog
(31,999 posts)6. "Guns Don't kill people ...."
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)7. What a sad, stupid, story
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,347 posts)8. This is heartbreaking and I hope everyone gets the help they'll need.
Initech
(100,076 posts)9. Give an idiot a gun, don't be surprised when they do something stupid with it.
keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)10. "hit an area not covered by the vest"
Just one of those detail things, eh?
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)11. Florida.
Demovictory9
(32,456 posts)12. updated... arrested again with arsenal