A few months ago, there were three child related shootings in a little over a week. In two of those cases charges had already been filed against the adults whose poor handling of firearms allowed those shootings to happen. Today, Snohomish County announced it had completed its investigation in the sad case were a 7-year old was killed by her 3-year old brother because the father had left his loaded S&W revolver sitting in the cup holder of his van while he and his wife ran an errand in a store for 'just a second'.
Marysville police officer charged in daughter's
In this case, I think 2nd Degree Manslaughter is right. The guy didn't mean for this to happen, he was just in a hurry, and made a poor, poor decision. As a result of that decision, his daughter was killed.
I don't buy much into this picture that they are trying to paint that the 3-year old had a fascination with firearms...the kid was a kid. I'm also don't expect an 'example' to be made because he was a police officer...I would expect ANY gun owner who left a loaded revolver in a van full of kids to be treated the same way.
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