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MO: Overland Teen Fatally Shot Himself While Taking Selfie, Police Say
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A 15-year-old boy who fatally shot himself in the chest Friday was apparently trying to take a selfie when the gun accidentally discharged, police said Tuesday. The photograph hasn’t been found — police will be asking a lab to access the boy’s cellphone — but that is the Overland police investigators’ leading theory in the death of DaMontez Jones. The teen died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his right upper chest, and the shooting has been ruled an accident, police said. |
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teebonicus
(6/8/2016)
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Ah, yes. Yet another instance where the gun "went off".
All by its lonesome, we must presume.
They're prone to do that, y'know.... |
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jac
(6/8/2016)
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I don't understand how one would shoot himself taking a "selfie". You are supposed to point the camera at yourself, not the gun.
And how do they know it was an accidental discharge? Maybe it was a suicide and he was trying to take a picture of the act for posterity.
If it wasn't suicide, it was negligence, not an accident.
Follow the Cardinal rules of gun safety and you won't have these incidents:
Keep your finger off of the trigger.
Never point a gun at something you don't want to destroy.
A good reason to teach your children gun safety instead of leaving it up to them to figure it out for themselves. |
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