01-20-2015, 11:25 PM
(01-20-2015, 09:14 PM)ramseycat Wrote: Boys will be boys?? I hope he gets charged.
Gramps needs to get his story straight. I suspect that he's an effin' liar who's trying to cover his ass now and avoid negligence charges (and he probably will).
An earlier report contends that gramps had the revolver on a shelf on the headboard. This later report from a few hours ago quotes gramps saying that the guns were locked up and he insinuates a five-year-old got into a locked gun cabinet using a screw driver or some random key. Sure gramps. Sure.
Snip:
As she grieves for her baby and worries about the future of her eldest son, whose name is being withheld by NBC News, Alexis Wiederholt said her loss should be a warning to others to protect children from firearms.
She said she had no idea that her father, William Porter, kept a loaded pistol in the Elmo home she and the children were visiting. "I didn't know it was there until I turned around and saw it laying on the bed," she said. "I don't know why someone would have a loaded gun in the house while kids were around."
Porter told NBC News that he had the pistol for security and target practice and kept it in a locked case in his bedroom with other guns he uses for sport. "I set it up behind the long arms. It's always been there. I've never moved it," he said.
It's unclear how the child got into the case, but Porter said it could be opened with a screwdriver or even a random key. "I told the boys they weren't supposed to be in my bedroom where I keep the gun cabinet and they knew it — but like I said, boys will be boys," Porter said in an emotional phone interview.
Asked whether he regrets keeping the weapons in the home, Porter said, "I do now."
Sheriff Darren White said he's a supporter of gun ownership — but that too many people are complacent about weapons.
"There are a lot of people who have handguns for home protection who should maybe rethink that," he said. "And when you have kids running around, you don't leave loaded handguns anywhere."
Investigators have not yet interviewed the 5-year-old, and his mother said he hasn't processed his little brother's death.
"His dad tried talking to him about it, but he doesn't understand," Wiederholt said, adding that she still doesn't know why he fired the gun. "Maybe he thought it was something off a TV show," she said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigatio...ed-n289541