4 Year Old Shoots Babysitter
Police say a 4-year-old Ohio boy shot his babysitter because she accidentally stepped on his foot.
What is the world coming to? My daughter will be 4 in August…wow, it really makes you think!
From the Associated Press:
Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jackson on Sunday when the shooting occurred.
Witnesses told police the 4-year-old retrieved the shotgun from a bedroom closet and shot Beavers. Police said the child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot.
Beavers was hospitalized with minor pellet wounds to his arm and side.
Police say another teen was also injured with shotgun pellets.
Jackson County Sheriff John Shashteen said authorities are investigating the shooting. The child has not been charged.
From USA Today:
Police say a 4-year-old boy shot his babysitter Sunday because the 17-year-old stepped on his foot.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that the boy “retrieved a shell from a drawer in a back bedroom, grabbed a 20-gauge single-shot shotgun from a closet and loaded the weapon … returned to the living room, and in front of another 17-year-old boy and other children, shot [Nathan] Beavers.”
Beavers was treated for wounds from the birdshot, the paper says. The blast also injured another Jackson County, Ohio, teen, according to the Associated Press.
The shooter, who we’re not identifying because of his age, isn’t facing any charges.
“He knew it was wrong. He’d seen guns loaded and shot before, but he’s never seen the carnage it makes when it hits. He knows it now,” his father tells WBNS-TV.
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