South Dakota Teen Shoots And Kills Friend With Shotgun After Paintball Argument

[Tx4obama]

South Dakota Teen Shoots And Kills Friend With Shotgun After Paintball Argument

Dalton Williams of Pierre is dead after a fight with his friend over a paintball game.

A 16-year-old witness who was hanging out with the boys told detectives that Williams and the other boy began to wrestle around jokingly after arguing about a paintball game.

The accused shooter then retrieved a semi-automatic shotgun, walked into the kitchen area and pointed it at the witness, according to the arrest affidavit.

The witness said he heard the gun click, then saw the accused shooter take a shotgun shell from a drawer, load the gun and point it at him again. The witness said he then heard another click, according to the affidavit.

The witness told police he was trying to leave the house through a sliding glass door when Williams stepped in between him and the accused shooter. The witness told detectives that the gun fired and he observed a splatter, according to the affidavit.

The witness then left the house and called 911.

http://www.alan.com/2012/12/19/south-dakota-teen-shoots-and-kills-friend-with-shotgun-after-paintball-argument/

More here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/19/teen-shooting-paintball/1781317/

[Llewlladdwr]

1. What a strange story.

So, the shooter intended to kill the witness and the friend got in the way?

[Care Acutely]

2. If only we had even more guns, everywhere, and they were even easier to access

If only we were MORE saturated with guns . .

[bayareamike]

3. If only the witness and the victim had had guns none of this would've happened

[RedCappedBandit]

4. They must have been mentally ill!

[orwell]

5. Box up the "splatter"...

..and send it to the NRA.

They can frame it and display it as wall art.

[kestrel91316]

6. So he just casually walked someplace, like into a bedroom,

found the gun, and took it?? I wonder what the registered owner has to say about how well that weapon was secured to prevent this.

More gun owner irresponsibility.

[ellisonz]

7. Well if only he had a gun...

[mwrguy]

8. This shows that we don't need a ban on assault weapons

We need a ban on weapons, period.

[msongs]

9. another 2A success story nt