A 5-year-old boy was found killed by a single-shot wound to the head in Vidor at approximately 2:45 p.m. Monday.
According to Chief Deputy Clint Hodgkinson with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, they received a call to the at approximately 2:45 p.m. on a call of an unresponsive child on Scott Drive in North Vidor.
Investigators say the shooting happened in the 1200 block of Roberts Road. The child was being watched by a babysitter at his parent's home when the shooting occurred.
Without access to a phone, the babysitter carried the child through the woods to the grandparent's home on Scott street.
The gun-nut dad probably kept his gun under a pillow and instructed the kid to never touch it when daddy's not home. Or maybe it was in the bedroom nightstand or a closet which would require the little boy to climb on a chair in order to reach the fascinating item.
One thing for sure is the gun was not locked in a safe where it should have been. But it Texas that doesn't matter.
I'll bet dad had a concealed carry permit too. They're easy to get down Texas way.
"But it Texas that doesn't matter."
ReplyDeleteWrong.
http://smartgunlaws.org/child-access-prevention-in-texas/
The follow-up story today has the babysitter arrested for leaving her gun around when she took a nap.
DeleteI blame the gun-rights movement which convinced the pathetic 19-year-old that she needed a gun in the first place. I blame her parents who raised her in the pro-gun Texas cesspool. And I blame the dead boy's parents who left him in the charge of someone like that. And I blame you, Tom, and all the other gun rights lunatics who are fundamentally responsible for all these gun incidents.