, the station reported. Police are investigating the gun ownership, KCTV reported.

The mother other three children are with relatives, according to the station.

The sheriff said guns are rampant in the rural community.

are big supporters of firearms around here, White told CNN affiliate KETV. have a lot of people that own weapons. They hunt. They target shoot. Most people are very safe with them, and this is one of those cases where everything went together in the wrong way. added, got some guys that work here that have little kids of their own. This kind of hits home with them, too. They take it personally.

At least one nearby resident told KCTV she believes the shooting could have been easily prevented.

know, just some gun safety could have come into play, and would have maybe, you know prevented the situation, but it just really sad, altogether, neighbor Jessica Hutchison said.

According to Project ChildSafe, gun owners should lock unloaded weapons in a safe, vault or cabinet inaccessible to children. Gun locks should be used in addition to safe storage, and ammunition should be locked away separately from any firearm.

Parents should also teach their children that if they find a gun in a house, they should leave it where it is and tell an adult, even if the weapon resembles a toy, the advocacy group says.

Monday incident is the latest in a series of high profile shootings involving children. Among them, a 4 year old girl killed her cousin, also 4, in Detroit nike roshe run dames zwart while playing with a gun found under a bed last January, a 9 year old accidentally killed a shooting instructor in August while firing a submachine gun at an Arizona range and last month a 2 year old fatally shot his mother in an Idaho Walmart after finding a gun in her purse.锘縪ld brother in shooting death of Patrick Spitler

JACKSON, MI The 16 year old brother of Patrick Spitler, 20, shot and killed on Dec. 6, faces murder charges related nike roshe run damen schwarz to the incident, Jackson County Prosecutor Jerry Jarzynka said.

Jarzynka said his office direct filed charges of open murder and felony firearm against Riley Spitler, longchamps pliagefree run v3 who has been charged as an adult. Dec. 6 to the 500 block of Big Rock Street in Stonegate Farms where Patrick Spitler was found with a single gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

An open murder charge leaves for a judge or jury to decide whether first or nike roshe run women zwart second degree murder or manslaughter, if any charge, is appropriate. First degree murder carries a mandatory penalty of life in prison without roshe run nike women the possibility of parole. Second degree murder leaves the sentence to the court’s discretion.

A felony firearm conviction carries a penalty of two years in prison.

Blackman Leoni Township Public Safety Director Mike Jester said the incident remained under investigation on Friday, Dec. 12, and declined to release any details regarding the case.

Anyone with information regarding Spitler’s death is encouraged to call Blackman Leoni Township Department of Public Safety detective bureau at 517 990 9700.锘縪ld brother suffered years of abuse

WHITE SPRINGS, Fla. A 15 year old girl who fatally shot her 16 year old brother suffered years of abuse, including being locked in a room for weeks at a time with only a blanket and a bucket to use the bathroom, according to police reports and interviews.

The shooting at a small white house off a dirt road in rural north Florida happened Monday while the children’s parents were away for work. The father, a truck driver, and his wife, who often goes with him, left the 16 year old boy to watch over the 15 year old, her 11 year old sister and their 3 year old sister, police said. The parents left Sunday and were due back Tuesday.

Sometime Monday, the 15 year old girl was locked in her room by her brother, police said. After the boy fell asleep, she talked her 11 year old sister into unlocking her door.

The older girl knew her parents kept a pistol in their room, but they had locked their door. So the girl went outside and used a knife to remove an air conditioner from her parents’ bedroom window. She climbed in while her 11 year old sister kept watch and grabbed the gun out of a pink bag and loaded it, police said.

The girl went back inside the house, telling her young sisters to get in the closet, she told police. She turned her head and fired at her sleeping brother in the living room, and he screamed “Help! Help!”

She buried her head in a pillow for a while and upon returning to the living room, the girl found her 3 year old sister trying to wake her dead brother, according to the police report.

She fled with her 11 year old sister, leaving the 3 year old behind, police said.

“It’s hard for us to get our arms around this act,” Columbia County Sheriff Mark Hunter said. “This is the stuff nightmares are made of.”

Police caught up with the girls after a friend of theirs received a “weird phone call” from the 11 year old girl, saying she had run away and needed someone to pick her up from a Dollar General, according to a police report. When the woman

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