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Giantone · 05-08-2013, 06:07 PM

I won't start a new thread just add another tragedy to the growing list ,again another needless death through the ignorance of a gun owner.

Fla. boy, 3, fatally shoots self with uncle's gun | US National Headlines | Comcast

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Florida boy has died after shooting himself with a gun he found in his uncle's backpack.

The shooting happened Tuesday night in a bedroom Jadarrius Speights shared with his uncle at an apartment complex in Tampa. Authorities say the uncle, 29-year-old Jeffrey D. Walker, has been charged with culpable negligence.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Walker had an attorney. His phone number was not listed and jail records didn't give a lawyer for him.

Police say he has a concealed weapons permit.

Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter says the uncle was not in the room when the shooting happened, but the child's parents were there. The boy was taken to a hospital where he died.

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Giantone Gamebreaker Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 14,288	Re: Five-year-old boy accidentally shoots, kills sister I won't start a new thread just add another tragedy to the growing list ,again another needless death through the ignorance of a gun owner. Fla. boy, 3, fatally shoots self with uncle's gun \| US National Headlines \| Comcast TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Florida boy has died after shooting himself with a gun he found in his uncle's backpack. The shooting happened Tuesday night in a bedroom Jadarrius Speights shared with his uncle at an apartment complex in Tampa. Authorities say the uncle, 29-year-old Jeffrey D. Walker, has been charged with culpable negligence. It wasn't immediately clear whether Walker had an attorney. His phone number was not listed and jail records didn't give a lawyer for him. Police say he has a concealed weapons permit. Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter says the uncle was not in the room when the shooting happened, but the child's parents were there. The boy was taken to a hospital where he died. __________________ ....DISCLAIMER: All of my posts/threads are my expressed typed opinion and the reader is not to assume these comments are absolute fact, law, or truth unless otherwise stated in said post/thread.