Reply #7: Yeah. Like the 4 year old boy that killed his 5 year old [View All]

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

sister and wounded his seven year old brother. I'm sure if he couldn't find a gun, he'd have grabbed a club and had at them.

Anguish, Questions In Killing By Boy, 4
Sister, 5, Shot Dead; Brother, 7, Wounded
By Cheryl W. Thompson and Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, September 29, 2003; Page A01


By the time police arrived, the 4-year-old boy had put down the .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun and was standing in the doorway crying.

"He kept asking if everybody was okay," said Cpl. Diane Richardson, a Prince George's County police spokeswoman.

Outside the Palmer Park rambler, his 5-year-old sister, Kimberly, lay dying from the single gunshot that the boy had fired through the red, wood door. His 7-year-old brother, Gregory Thigpen Jr., was critically injured with a bullet wound to the back. And his 10-year-old sister, Katina Brice, who was left to watch the children while her parents were out, was yelling for help.

A day after Saturday's tragic shooting, Prince George's police were trying to trace the handgun and determine how a 4-year-old had gotten hold of it. They said yesterday that charges could be filed against the parents or others who had left the weapon within his reach.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14945-2003Sep28.html

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Naw, our gun laws are just fine.