Florida One-year-old Accidentally Shot by Sibling - No Charges Expected

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The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is investigating the accidental shooting of a one-year-old child.

Preliminary investigations reveal two children – ages three and one – were left alone inside a vehicle.  The three-year-old obtained a handgun that was left inside the vehicle and accidentally shot it. The bullet struck the one-year-old child.

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident, and no criminal charges are expected this evening.

PA Gun Owners Charged in Kid Shooting

Elaine and Samoad Key

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A Lancaster woman is headed to trial for an accidental shooting that critically injured her 9-year-old brother.

Elaine Key, 25, waived a preliminary hearing Thursday and allowed charges of aggravated assault, causing or risking a catastrophe, reckless endangerment, and conspiracy to proceed to county court.

Her husband, 30-year-old Samoad Key, also waived his hearing on counts of hindering apprehension and tampering with evidence. He is accused of hiding his wife’s gun on the roof of their home.

Jose Rentas

The couple and Key’s father, 46-year-old Jose Rentas, on April 5 were test-firing Elaine Key’s newly purchased .380-caliber handgun at a target in the basement, using as a backstop a hollow-core door propped in front of a window facing the sidewalk and street.

Mrs. Key fired a shot that went through the door and window and struck her brother in the back as he played on the sidewalk at his home.


Rentas also is charged with aggravated assault, causing or risking a catastrophe, reckless endangerment, and conspiracy. His preliminary hearing was rescheduled.