17 year old Summer Moody has died. Her assailant is now known, but still not charged. [View all]

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This is the case where a group of campers in a fishing cabin heard noises at 4 am and decided to grab their rifles and get in a boat and investigate the noises. The authorities have determined which of the "campers" who fired "warning shots" into the darkness at a group of scattering teens hit Summer Moody in the back of the head, but no shooter has yet been charged. The only current charges are against the teens who were with Summer, who the campers claimed had been involved in a burglary at the unoccupied cabin. The prosecutor is still determining whether the shooting was justified, as the shooters say they simply were trying to protect another camper's property.

And in Alabama, a lot of people think if someone MIGHT be vandalizing or stealing someone else's property, it's okay if you fire "warning shots" that accidentally hit a human being -- even if you have a previous conviction for cocaine trafficking yourself, and probably shouldn't be carrying a gun anyway.

The Feds are also investigating now, because of this gun regulation issue, but they say that they don't press charges in all such situations -- it could depend on whether this shooting turned out to be justified.

Whether this shooting -- of an unarmed girl in the back of the head -- turned out to be justified.

Wow. One more reason I'm glad I don't live in Alabama.

http://www2.wkrg.com/news/2012/apr/26/7/summer-moody-dies-ar-3678671/


Robert Stankoski, the Moody family's attorney, says she passed away shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday when her parents "made the very difficult and traumatic decision to remove her from the ventilator." An infection at the site of the bullet wound had moved to Moody's brain. Surgery to remove the infected portion of the brain would have effected her cognitive function.