Or another argument for gun control?
3-year-old playing with gun kills man, 20
Next-door neighbor says victim was 'shot dead-on in the chest'
- Demian Bulwa, Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
A 3-year-old boy playing with a gun in an Alameda apartment accidentally shot and killed a 20-year-old man on Monday, police said.
Police said the child found the gun inside the bedroom of the apartment at 1777 Shoreline Drive. About 1 p.m., as the boy played with the gun, it fired and a bullet struck the man, who also was in the bedroom, in the chest.
Police did not say what the relationship was between the man and the child. The identities of both were not released.
The victim was pronounced dead at Highland Hospital.
A next-door neighbor in the three-story apartment building across the street from San Francisco Bay said he was watching television when he heard "a lot of loud noises and hysterical-type screaming.''
The neighbor, Leroy Gore, said he heard people screaming in Spanish after the sound of the gunshot, and then he opened his apartment door to see paramedics wheel the injured man out from the apartment on a gurney.
The victim, Gore said, was "shot dead-on in the chest.''
Gore said his neighbors were a young couple with two young children. Gore said the victim was the father who lived in the apartment.
On Monday, he said, he saw several young women guests, accompanied by more young children, enter the victim's apartment.
Another neighbor said she heard the shot, too.
"All I heard was one 'boom,' said the woman, who lived next door and asked not to be identified. "Then I heard people screaming to call an ambulance and call police. The whole situation is just horrible, very scary and just very tragic.''
The circumstances of the shooting were under investigation and police were interviewing people who were in the apartment at the time of the shooting.
California law allows prosecutors to file criminal charges against adults in cases where children find guns and accidentally shoot and harm somebody.
Another case in the Bay Area of a child shooting a gun occurred in 1995, when a 4-year-old girl in Oakland accidentally shot her 2-year-old brother while playing with a gun. The boy was wounded in that case, and charges were not filed.
3-year-old playing with gun kills man, 20
Next-door neighbor says victim was 'shot dead-on in the chest'
- Demian Bulwa, Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writers
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
A 3-year-old boy playing with a gun in an Alameda apartment accidentally shot and killed a 20-year-old man on Monday, police said.
Police said the child found the gun inside the bedroom of the apartment at 1777 Shoreline Drive. About 1 p.m., as the boy played with the gun, it fired and a bullet struck the man, who also was in the bedroom, in the chest.
Police did not say what the relationship was between the man and the child. The identities of both were not released.
The victim was pronounced dead at Highland Hospital.
A next-door neighbor in the three-story apartment building across the street from San Francisco Bay said he was watching television when he heard "a lot of loud noises and hysterical-type screaming.''
The neighbor, Leroy Gore, said he heard people screaming in Spanish after the sound of the gunshot, and then he opened his apartment door to see paramedics wheel the injured man out from the apartment on a gurney.
The victim, Gore said, was "shot dead-on in the chest.''
Gore said his neighbors were a young couple with two young children. Gore said the victim was the father who lived in the apartment.
On Monday, he said, he saw several young women guests, accompanied by more young children, enter the victim's apartment.
Another neighbor said she heard the shot, too.
"All I heard was one 'boom,' said the woman, who lived next door and asked not to be identified. "Then I heard people screaming to call an ambulance and call police. The whole situation is just horrible, very scary and just very tragic.''
The circumstances of the shooting were under investigation and police were interviewing people who were in the apartment at the time of the shooting.
California law allows prosecutors to file criminal charges against adults in cases where children find guns and accidentally shoot and harm somebody.
Another case in the Bay Area of a child shooting a gun occurred in 1995, when a 4-year-old girl in Oakland accidentally shot her 2-year-old brother while playing with a gun. The boy was wounded in that case, and charges were not filed.
