Alaska Boy Dead by Gunshot - "No Foul Play"

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An Ambler boy has died following what troopers said was an accidental shooting Saturday night in the village.

At about 11 p.m., troopers in Kotzebue received the report of the shooting and chartered a commercial flight to Ambler in the early hours of Sunday morning. 

The investigation showed that a boy, 8, identified as C.G. in the trooper report, was playing with his cousins in the yard. The kids went into a nearby shed where they obtained a loaded firearm from the rafters, according to the trooper dispatch.

"One of the children then shot C.G. with the firearm, not realizing that the firearm was real or loaded," troopers said. 

The boy died from injuries sustained by the gunshot wound. No foul play is suspected.

Houston Teen Killed in Accidental Shooting

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Lengthy Investigation Continues Into Accidental Shooting Death Of 9-Year-Old California Boy

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Authorities Monday continued to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a 9-year-old boy who was accidentally shot by his older brother. 

Around 12:10 p.m. on Saturday, deputies from the Perris Police Department were sent to a home in the 100 block of Metz Road for report of an accidental shooting.

Upon their arrival, officials located the young boy suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld pending family notification.

A preliminary investigation revealed the victim’s 14-year-old brother had accidentally shot him. One of the boys discovered the gun inside a box, and began to play with it, which led up to the shooting.
“The older brother pointed [the gun] at the younger brother, pulled the trigger and apparently it was loaded,” explained Mayor Daryl Busch. “He died from the shot.”

It remains unclear if the gun was properly permitted.

At this time, authorities are referring to the incident as a tragic accident, and not a deliberate act.

The Boston Bomber's Handgun

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Three days after the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon explosions, investigators say bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev used a Ruger 9mm semi-automatic handgun to murder MIT police officer Sean Collier, carjack a young businessman, and hours later to fire on police in a vicious gunfight. Now with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on trial, witnesses and court documents have shed new light on the pistol’s curious path through a criminal underground and purportedly into the hands of the brothers who were once the most wanted men in America. 

The gun’s serial number was “obliterated” by the time U.S. law enforcement got to it, but federal investigators were able to forensically “raise” the numbers and trace its purchase to a gun store more than three years ago and 100 miles from Boston.

In November 2011, Los Angeles native Danny Sun Jr. bought the 9mm Ruger P95 at a Cabela’s hunting and fishing store in South Portland, Maine as part of a “multi-gun” purchase, law enforcement officials and a Cabela manager told ABC News. Sun Jr. later told police that at some point over the next year, he gave the weapon to Biniam “Icy” Tsegai. 

When Tsegai, an Eritrean immigrant, received the gun, federal prosecutors in Maine said he and others were the target of a multi-agency federal investigation into crack dealing out of Portland hotel rooms. Tsegai would plead guilty to drug charges in 2014. 

But back in 2012, Tsegai handed the gun off to 21-year-old Merhawi “Howie” Berhe, according to recent testimony from Stephen Silva, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s “best friend.” 

"Sun Jr. later told police that at some point over the next year, he gave the weapon to Biniam “Icy” Tsegai. "

Licensing and registration would have made that illegal. The way things are now, Mr. Sun could simply claim that it was a private transfer and he didn't know that Icy Tsegai was a criminal.