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Notable firearms 'accident'
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:27 pm
by Paladin
This one is interesting. Can't say for sure, but it appears that two young gangsta's had a accident as they were training to mug people.
Of course the Brady campaign will count it as another child dieing in a firearms accident.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/13532836/detail.html
Teen Plays With Gun, Fatally Shoots Friend
POSTED: 6:40 pm EDT June 19, 2007
PALATKA, Fla. -- A Palatka teen is facing a first-degree felony after fatally shooting his friend while playing with a gun on Tuesday afternoon.
According to deputies, 17-year-old Trarelle LaQuan Mack was fatally shot by his long-time friend, Zack William Glenn, also 17.
The shooting took place at 110 East Hicks Street, in Palatka.
Officers said a preliminary investigation revealed the two teens were in a back room of the residence when the shooting occurred.
Investigators said Mack was counting money for a pizza when Glenn picked up a gun, pointed it at Mack, and playfully said, "Give me your money."
Mack then reached and grabbed at the gun, and the gun discharged and hit Mack in the chest, according to authorities.
Mack was rushed to the Putnam Community Medical Center emergency room, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Glenn was taken to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office, where detectives interviewed him.
Glenn was charged with the manslaughter with a firearm of a child under 18 years of age and was booked at the Putnam County Jail. He was then transported to a juvenile facility.
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:59 pm
by Seburiel
wow...just...wow
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 4:05 pm
by Wildscar
Re: Notable firearms 'accident'
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:29 pm
by Venus Pax
Paladin wrote:Investigators said Mack was counting money for a pizza when Glenn picked up a gun,
Where did this gun come from?
Like many news stories, we're getting too little information.
Re: Notable firearms 'accident'
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 5:37 pm
by seamusTX
Paladin wrote:Can't say for sure, but it appears that two young gangsta's had a accident as they were training to mug people.
I musta been a young gangsta, because when we played cops and robbers, the robbers shot at the cops.
Fortunately, our guns only went "click," and we had to argue about who was dead.
- Jim
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:15 pm
by srothstein
Hmmm, sounds like a weird case to me. If he picks up a gun and points it at his friend and says "give me your money", I would think that is a robbery. If the friend dies after struggling for the gun, it makes it capital murder.
And I would think the friend took it seriously when he grabbed for the gun. If it was friends playing, he would have just said something along the lines of "put that down", possibly a little more emphatically than that.
And if he was booked at the jail (as a 17 year old should be) why was he taken to the juvenile facility?
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:30 pm
by Liberty
srothstein wrote:And if he was booked at the jail (as a 17 year old should be) why was he taken to the juvenile facility?
Aparently Florida laws wait until 18 until they are treated as adults.
Re: Notable firearms 'accident'
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:31 pm
by govnor
seamusTX wrote:Paladin wrote:Can't say for sure, but it appears that two young gangsta's had a accident as they were training to mug people.
I musta been a young gangsta, because when we played cops and robbers, the robbers shot at the cops.
Fortunately, our guns only went "click," and we had to argue about who was dead.
- Jim
Man, we had cap guns that went POW when I was a kid. We also played cops and robbers. I was usually the robber. I liked playing fireman better during the summer when we would put on raincoats and shoot each other with the waterhose. That was when "Emergency" was one of the most popular shows. Of course we had about four channels back then...
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:32 pm
by govnor
Hey, Paladin...isn't this why they sell those fake guns off of ice cream carts in South Dallas? Training purposes only...
Re: Notable firearms 'accident'
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:46 am
by Rex B
Venus Pax wrote:Paladin wrote:Investigators said Mack was counting money for a pizza when Glenn picked up a gun,
Where did this gun come from?
From Virginia, via NYC, of course 
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:33 pm
by srothstein
Liberty wrote:srothstein wrote:And if he was booked at the jail (as a 17 year old should be) why was he taken to the juvenile facility?
Aparently Florida laws wait until 18 until they are treated as adults.
Thanks, I was not thinking straight and went by Texas laws. I really need to pay more attention. It still sounds weird to me to book him at the jail and then take him to juvie, but other states do lots of things I thing are weird.
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:35 pm
by txinvestigator
srothstein wrote:Liberty wrote:srothstein wrote:And if he was booked at the jail (as a 17 year old should be) why was he taken to the juvenile facility?
Aparently Florida laws wait until 18 until they are treated as adults.
Thanks, I was not thinking straight and went by Texas laws. I really need to pay more attention. It still sounds weird to me to book him at the jail and then take him to juvie, but other states do lots of things I thing are weird.
Yep, like call bad guys "perps" instead of dirt bags, and other non-10 year old daughter rule words.
and those crimes like "battery" B&E, etc.
and those crimes like "battery" B&E, etc.