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12-year Charged Killing Brother - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 14th Oct, 2009 - 3:32pm
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12-year Old Charged With Killing Little Brother
When you read stories like this, you hope it was an accident but as you discovered it wasn't you start thinking what could possibly be wrong for a 12 years old child to murder his own 8 year old brother in this way? Insane.
QUOTE DEPOSIT, N.Y. - A 12-year-old upstate New York boy has been charged with shooting his 8-year-old brother to death, but authorities on Tuesday declined to reveal what was behind the gunfire.
Authorities charged the older boy as a juvenile delinquent Monday and will prosecute him in Delaware County Family Court for conduct they say would constitute second-degree murder if he were an adult. Children must be at least 13 years or older in New York to be prosecuted for murder as adults, said Janine Kava, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The boys were home alone late Saturday afternoon when the older brother took a rifle from inside the house and fired a single shot, mortally wounding his younger brother, said state police Lt. Jeffrey Van Auken. The younger brother was airlifted to Wilson Regional Medical Center in Johnson City, where he later died.
The shooting was initially reported to emergency dispatchers as an accident, Van Auken said.
"As we investigated it, the circumstances changed," he said.
Van Auken declined to provide any other details about the circumstances or whether the parents faced any charges. He also wouldn't discuss the parents' whereabouts at the time of the shooting. The investigation was continuing, he said....
Authorities charged the older boy as a juvenile delinquent Monday and will prosecute him in Delaware County Family Court for conduct they say would constitute second-degree murder if he were an adult. Children must be at least 13 years or older in New York to be prosecuted for murder as adults, said Janine Kava, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The boys were home alone late Saturday afternoon when the older brother took a rifle from inside the house and fired a single shot, mortally wounding his younger brother, said state police Lt. Jeffrey Van Auken. The younger brother was airlifted to Wilson Regional Medical Center in Johnson City, where he later died.
The shooting was initially reported to emergency dispatchers as an accident, Van Auken said.
"As we investigated it, the circumstances changed," he said.
Van Auken declined to provide any other details about the circumstances or whether the parents faced any charges. He also wouldn't discuss the parents' whereabouts at the time of the shooting. The investigation was continuing, he said....
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I notice that in rural areas you hear a lot about stories like this one. Kids don't learn these things unless they're taught. Guns and kids don't mix up.
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I call this improper training of children around a firearm. I grew up in a house that had guns that were loaded. I got very angry at my brothers but never thought to shoot them. My children are in a house with firearms. I own a high powered rifle and a hand gun. None of my kids have ever gotten angry enough at one of their siblings to the point of wanting to shoot each other.
I know there is a lot they have not released but I believe that if your going to have guns and bullets laying about more education is needed so the child respects the gun.
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