Assault rifle goes off, Ore. child killed [View all]
Source: Associated Press
Assault rifle goes off, Ore. child killed
| June 28, 2013 | Updated: June 28, 2013 3:35pm
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A 5-year-old girl has been killed and a woman wounded in Grants Pass after an assault rifle went off and shot them in an upstairs room of an apartment, police said.
A 30-year-old transient who was visiting the apartment was to be arraigned Friday on charges of manslaughter, assault and illegal possession of a machine gun, Chief Deputy District Attorney Lisa Turner said. The manslaughter charge alleges the killing was reckless, not intentional.
Police said Jon Andrew Meyer Jr. was arrested Thursday night without incident at the scene.
Turner said she could not divulge the make and model of the rifle, who owned it, or whether it was manufactured as a fully automatic weapon or modified later.
Police said Meyer was in a downstairs room of the apartment when the rifle went off there, and the girl and the woman were upstairs in the same apartment. The woman was not related to the girl, whose mother was also in the apartment, but not shot, Turner said.
A neighbor, Chris Mehl, told The Grants Pass Daily Courier (http://bit.ly/11Sry9a ) that he heard a gunshot, then a rapid firing.
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