Girl Shot Over Bag of Chips
Dillon County, SC
A ten year old boy wanted a bag of chips that his nine year old sister had. When she refused to give them up he found his father's gun, loaded it with a bullet, then shot her in the face. They ran next door to a family members house after the shooting occurred. His sister was then rushed to Charleston, for emergency plastic surgery and is expected to recover just fine. While watching the video on this sad event one of the relatives said that the little boy loves his sister and he believes the shooting was an accident. What in the world?
His mother stated that he hadn't been taking his medication for hyperactivity. Well whose fault is that? She is the mother and if she knows her child is on medication,then it her duty as a parent to make sure that he takes it. Now this is the part that truly upsets me about the whole situation; he pulled the same gun on a cousin before. Why is the father's gun so easily accessible? Where were the parents? I know that parents couldn't possibly fathom the fact that their child would ever shoot one of their siblings, but if that child has serious behavioral problem why would you leave them alone? At those ages there should have been someone home with them, or better yet they should have been at the relatives home next door.
I have three younger brothers and when we were growing up there were times that they rubbed me wrong. A majority of the time we shared whatever it was we had, but there was always one of my brothers that would make me mad and therefore we had a fight. Not once did I have an urge to go into the kitchen and grab a knife, nor did I pick up a bat and bash their heads in. I love my brothers with all my heart and never really wanted to hurt them, but they needed to remember that I was the princess of the house from time to time.
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Post a CommentThat's real sad, so many lives taken these days for no reason at all. I had two brothers Quiche that bullied me, and I was the oldest. Something like shooting them was the farthest thing from my mind. I didn't grow up in a home with guns and I don't have one in my home. But, you know that might of stopped them, huh, just kidding. On a serious note, parents aren't being parents nowadays. :0)
That is sad. My younger sister took my Little Miss Revlon Doll and ripped it's body apart and hid it. She was mad because I was going to spend the week with my grandmother and cousin who lived with her. I did not like my cousin; did not want to go; mom made me. She felt my little sister went every weekend and I should have a turn. So I got to spend a weekend with a cousin I did not like that much and took me a while to find my poor favorite doll. Moral? We were a bit older and I was just about to place the Ketchup on the table when she came around it at me with a knife. It stands in my head, because I still see me backing out of the kitchen, hall, front door and carefully placing that bottle on the floor before exiting. Later I was told she was going after my dad not me. I read as an adult people do to your stuff what they want to do to you. The doll was not the only thing she did to me. So yeah I could picture her getting a gun and shooting in today's world.
Growing up, I lived in a safe neighborhood and people rarely locked their doors in the daytime. You could hear screen doors banging open and shut in the summer, doors half open, no air conditioning (not then). Even so, there was a gun in the house, one which we never touched because our father had made it clear that this would be a very...bad...thing to do. Having noted that, I think guns left where children can get them is an act of negligence. It is wrong. I don't have ambivalence about this. We were lucky no playmate found that gun and use it ,even to "pretend shoot." Children see too many shows where guns are used. Too many children have been caught taking guns to school, even in grade school! Reading your reporting (well done, by the way) I was reminded yet again why guns should not be where children can find them.
You are absolutely right. There was a lack of parental supervision in this case. This is such a sad, very sad story.
Such a sad story !!!...Great Reporting and very well written !!