Police Report Says Parents Didn’t Realize Daughter Had Shot Gun Instructor
When the police arrived, the shooting range instructor who had been accidentally shot by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi was still breathing, lying on the ground and moaning as a colleague tried to stanch the bleeding from a bullet wound to his head, according to a police report released on Tuesday.
Her parents did not immediately realize what had happened after the automatic machine gun recoiled in the girls hands, shooting wildly on the morning of Aug. 25. The couple, visiting a recreational shooting range on a family vacation, rushed over to comfort their daughter as she complained that the gun was too much for her and it hurt her shoulder, according to new details of the shooting released by the Mohave County
Only after another instructor rushed to the victim, Charles Vacca, did the parents realize that he had been shot in the head, according to the report, which was based on statements by the parents and witnesses. At that point, the parents took the girl and her siblings a brother and a sister away from the scene, heading to a cafeteria upstairs, the father told deputies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/us/parents-didnt-realize-gun-instructor-had-been-shot-police-say.html?_r=0
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Sorry, I can't get my head wrapped around this kind of thing.
underpants
(182,723 posts)Dad had just fired the same Uzi and the whole family had just ridden on the Burger and Bullet's MONSTER TRUCK. They were redneck lala land.
Fairgo
(1,571 posts)I cannot fathom a world where there is a family fun-time place called "Burgers and Bullets" where children play with machines specifically designed to kill human beings while they munch on a happy meal. It's societal sociopathy...and you are right, they were likely having the time of their lives...until the killing started.
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littlemissmartypants
(22,628 posts)The stupid claim stupidity in their own defense?
Are the children at any risk of being removed from the home for their own safety?
One can only hope.
Thanks for your post, lunasun.
Love, Peace and Shelter.
~ littlemissmartypants
littlemissmartypants
(22,628 posts)Sorry for messing up your thread. Somehow I posted multiples of the same thing. Very sorry.
~ Lmsp