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Younger than you would ever think...gun loons should have their kids
taken away along with their guns.
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4-year-old shoots 6-year-old days before Senate gun control debate
A 4-year-old shoots 6-year-old with a .22 caliber rifle and kills him
in Toms River, N.J. The 4-year-old shoots 6-year-old in the same week
that the Senate is expected to hold a vote on gun control.
By Staff, Associated Press / April 10, 2013
The Christian Science Monitor
Weekly Digital Edition
Ocean County prosecutor's office spokesman Al Della Fave confirmed
Brandon Holt had died but said he couldn't provide further details.
Toms River police Chief Michael Mastronardy said Holt was pronounced
dead at 5 p.m. Tuesday, nearly 24 hours after the shooting occurred in
a neighborhood that residents described as "very quiet."
The 4-year-old, whose name was withheld, was not injured.
Prosecutor Joseph Coronato, speaking earlier Tuesday at a news
conference, said the boy got the .22-caliber rifle from his home and
it discharged accidentally Monday evening. The children, whose
families live in the neighborhood, were about 15 yards apart.
Center for Disease Control and prevention data obtained by The
Christian Science Monitor shows 35 accidental firearm deaths per
100,000 children ages 5 to 9 between 2008 and 2010. For children 4-
years-old and younger, 62 died.
The younger boy's mother called the emergency dispatcher to report the
shooting, Coronato said.
Coronato said it was too early in the investigation to know whether
anyone would be charged. He would not say who owned the gun or
speculate on how the 4-year-old got it.
Mastronardy called the shooting tragic and said it affected the whole
community, a sentiment shared by those who live there.
One resident said the two families had not lived in the neighborhood
for long and she did not know them well.
"I'm sad for the children involved and their families, but I'm angry
with whoever owns that gun and allowed a little child to get hold of
it. A 4-year-old can't load a gun," said Debi Coto, who lives a few
doors down. "I had just been telling my sister how nice it is to see
kids playing together and enjoying themselves, and then this happens."
Coto said the 4-year-old's mother seemed very upset in the minutes
after the shooting and appeared to be trying to comprehend what had
happened.
The shooting came just days after a 4-year-old boy in Tennessee
grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot to
death the wife of a sheriff's deputy and amid debate over gun control
laws in the wake of December's Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school
massacre.