09-15-2010, 01:59 PM
this little boy died this morning.
was it his daddy's duty weapon?? fuck.
September 15, 2010
BATTLE GROUND, Wash. -- A sheriff's deputy's 3-year-old son accidentally shot himself in the head late Tuesday night at a Battle Ground home, police said.
Battle Ground police and Clark County firefighters found the injured boy when they were called to the home at about 10 p.m. Paramedics then rushed the child to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in north Portland, where his condition has not been released.
The boy's father, a Clark County sheriff's deputy, was off-duty and at home when the shooting happened, officers said.
It wasn't immediately clear how the boy got access to the gun. While emergency dispatchers said the gun was a service weapon, the Battle Ground Police Department hasn't confirmed that detail.
A joint investigation by three police agencies is under way.
The Clark County Sheriff's Office has a policy that requires officers to lock up their service weapons when not in use. The sheriff's office also supplied deputies with lock boxes.
The policy was adopted after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed his 10-year-old sister with a gun issued to their father, Clark County sheriff's Sgt. Craig Randall, in January 2003.
The Sheriff's Office is no stranger to tragedy, and took significant steps to ensure that appropriate firearms storage policies and procedures are in place following the very tragic death of Emily Randall in 2003.
The Sheriff's Office firearms storage policy recognizes the Constitutional right of citizens to keep and maintain firearms. Policy mandates the safe storage of department issued weapons, and encourages employees to use safe storage techniques for any personally owned firearms as well.
The Sheriff's Office identifies acceptable safe storage techniques including the use of gun safes, gun lockers, trigger locks and cables, locked gun cases, vehicle mounted locking devices and other locked containers when a firearm is not in the employees' immediate possession.
The Sheriff's Office provides employees who are issued department weapons a locking gun safe, for use in their residence.
was it his daddy's duty weapon?? fuck.
September 15, 2010
BATTLE GROUND, Wash. -- A sheriff's deputy's 3-year-old son accidentally shot himself in the head late Tuesday night at a Battle Ground home, police said.
Battle Ground police and Clark County firefighters found the injured boy when they were called to the home at about 10 p.m. Paramedics then rushed the child to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in north Portland, where his condition has not been released.
The boy's father, a Clark County sheriff's deputy, was off-duty and at home when the shooting happened, officers said.
It wasn't immediately clear how the boy got access to the gun. While emergency dispatchers said the gun was a service weapon, the Battle Ground Police Department hasn't confirmed that detail.
A joint investigation by three police agencies is under way.
The Clark County Sheriff's Office has a policy that requires officers to lock up their service weapons when not in use. The sheriff's office also supplied deputies with lock boxes.
The policy was adopted after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed his 10-year-old sister with a gun issued to their father, Clark County sheriff's Sgt. Craig Randall, in January 2003.
The Sheriff's Office is no stranger to tragedy, and took significant steps to ensure that appropriate firearms storage policies and procedures are in place following the very tragic death of Emily Randall in 2003.
The Sheriff's Office firearms storage policy recognizes the Constitutional right of citizens to keep and maintain firearms. Policy mandates the safe storage of department issued weapons, and encourages employees to use safe storage techniques for any personally owned firearms as well.
The Sheriff's Office identifies acceptable safe storage techniques including the use of gun safes, gun lockers, trigger locks and cables, locked gun cases, vehicle mounted locking devices and other locked containers when a firearm is not in the employees' immediate possession.
The Sheriff's Office provides employees who are issued department weapons a locking gun safe, for use in their residence.