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

[jpak]

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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[ileus]

1. another case for safety training in schools...

[virgogal]

10. The father is a damned moron.

[spin]

11. +1000 (n/t)

[TheWraith]

22. Indeed. It's not like it's that hard, either.

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?

[rl6214]

28. +1000

[damntexdem]

2. This is not a gun control issue, it's a stupidity issue.

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

[gejohnston]

8. education too, but other than that we basically agree, imagine that n/t

[Hangingon]

3. unrec - blood dance

[ileus]

4. You'll be clicking the unrec botton alot then...

[jpak]

12. and when they cheer someone killing a burglar?

:shrug:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. i unrec both types of threads

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.

[ileus]

21. that's a good thing....celebrating innocents deaths is another.

[jpak]

25. We have a legal system and attempted burglary is not a capital crime in any state

vigilante justice is the suckage

yup

[Hangingon]

26. That isn't "vigilante justice" justice it is self defense.

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

[Tejas]

30. Better to cut their hands off?

Some countries do that.

[MineralMan]

5. Why was a loaded gun available to that 14-year old in

the vehicle? Seriously? Dad's a moron.

[toddwv]

6. The dad should be charged with negligent homicide.

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

[indepat]

7. The RW mantra that will continue into perpetuity: guns don't kill people, people kill

people. :patriot:

[eqfan592]

16. Did the gun magically jump up and shoot itself?

No, in fact it didn't.

[Demobrat]

9. Thank goodness it was the negligent parent's son who was killed

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.

[petronius]

13. Why were they shooting turtles in the first place?

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)...

[ileus]

20. we call them mud turttles, nasty little beasts...

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

[TheWraith]

23. Are those the same as snapping turtles up here?

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

[ileus]

24. I've believe so....heard them called both.

[KurtNYC]

14. more of these magic guns that aim and fire themselves

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

That gun should be arrested.

[TheWraith]

18. Bingo. Kind of like saying "My car crashed."

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

[KurtNYC]

19. my read: 2 boys in a car with a gun, they play with it, aim, pull the trigger

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.'

[peacetalksforall]

17. That so-called father may have trained his son about being careful with a gun, butn

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

[Tejas]

27. Do you EVER add an opinion or ANYTHING to your OP's?

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


skeered?

[rl6214]

29. Just her typical drive-by spam