WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maryland prosecutors have filed charges against an 8-year-old boy who shot and wounded a 7-year-old girl after threatening to rob her at a suburban day-care center, The Washington Post said on Wednesday.
The boy's father, "a felon with a lengthy record," was arrested and charged with leaving a firearm within reach of an unsupervised minor and other offenses after the Tuesday shooting, the Post said.
The third-grader had sneaked his father's .38-caliber revolver into the facility in his backpack on Tuesday, the paper said, quoting law-enforcement officials. He had been suspended in the past for bringing a weapon to school.
Police had initially said the boy accidentally shot the girl, a second-grade student, as a group of six children were attending a before-school program at the For Kids We Care day-care center in Germantown, Maryland, a Washington suburb.
But the Post said, "The sources said the boy threatened to rob the girl and then fired the gun once, striking her in the upper right arm."
The girl was reported in stable condition in a Washington hospital on Tuesday night, the paper said.
The boy "was charged as a juvenile with numerous counts that police declined to outline," it said. He was placed in the custody of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services.
-Sunny
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It's obvious this boy will be a terrible felon in years to come. A raping, murdering, drug dealing scum of the earth.
We should just give him the death penalty now and spare us all the troubles later.
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Jammer91 wrote:
If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
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Bammer wrote:
Hi.....I'm in......Maryland.
yeah i saw this on the local news here, some other dude got shot, which brought Baltimore's MONTHLY total to 26...which is a rate of more than 1 per day
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sleightofhandpj wrote:
As bad as I hate to quote M'n'M: "Where were the parents at?"
As a child and even a young adult, I knew that if I were to TOUCH a gun in my father's house, there would be DIRE consequences.
But it looks like the dad here was a piece of shit himself.......
Hell ... he didn't even need to be there. He could have just spent 15 bucks!
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yeah i saw this on the local news here, some other dude got shot, which brought Baltimore's MONTHLY total to 26...which is a rate of more than 1 per day
i can't wait to leave Maryland
Judging Maryland by Baltimore is like judging France by Paris.
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sleightofhandpj wrote:
Instilled discipline in his damn offspring!
*harder than paying $15.*
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simple schoolboy wrote:
Sandler wrote:
So if you're a member of a SWAT team, do you shoot this little fucker in the head?
For the love of god, let that thread die!!!
I did, but it ended rather oddly.
simple schoolboy wrote:
B wrote:
NaiveAndTrue wrote:
stuzzo wrote:
LittleWing wrote:
I drop the kid. Stone dead. Two to the chest and one to the head. And without hesitation.
You may not see this again, but this is me agreeing with LittleWing.
*seconds that*
I hate being on the same side of an argument as LittleWing.
LW pwns you.
Just wondering who sticks with this now. You've all established that age is no factor, and that any child with a gun at school can be killed if he/she points it at someone.
So would the SWAT team be justified in shooting this kid in the head or not?
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Sandler wrote:
simple schoolboy wrote:
Sandler wrote:
So if you're a member of a SWAT team, do you shoot this little fucker in the head?
For the love of god, let that thread die!!!
I did, but it ended rather oddly.
simple schoolboy wrote:
B wrote:
NaiveAndTrue wrote:
stuzzo wrote:
LittleWing wrote:
I drop the kid. Stone dead. Two to the chest and one to the head. And without hesitation.
You may not see this again, but this is me agreeing with LittleWing.
*seconds that*
I hate being on the same side of an argument as LittleWing.
LW pwns you.
Just wondering who sticks with this now. You've all established that age is no factor, and that any child with a gun at school can be killed if he/she points it at someone.
So would the SWAT team be justified in shooting this kid in the head or not?
If they aren't pointing the gun at anyone, try bribing them with a candy bar. It worked sometimes in World War II with the kids that got armed by the SS.
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Sandler wrote:
So would the SWAT team be justified in shooting this kid in the head or not?
Did the kid point a loaded gun at a SWAT team? Was he endangering other people around him?
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