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The man who accidentally shot his neighbor while trying to kill a rabid raccoon pleaded guilty to reckless handling of a firearm resulting in serious bodily injury, a class 6 Felony, per an agreement reached with the prosecution.

Douglas A. Ward, 50, will be sentenced Sept. 9 in Culpeper County Circuit Court in the incident that occurred near the intersection of the relatively populated area of Gum Street and Orange Road. Ward shot his female neighbor while attempting to shoot what he felt was a rabid animal.






http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_cc5f50c5-0833-50e9-84de-171a571d38c5.html
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Guns save lives.
 
The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year.
Nearly 330,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving.
1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.
Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.
Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field.
Texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
Of all cell phone related tasks, texting is by far the most dangerous activity.
94% of drivers support a ban on texting while driving.
74% of drivers support a ban on hand-held cell phone use.
Teen Driver Cell Phone Statistics

11 teens die every day as a result of texting while driving.
According to a AAA poll, 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway.
21% of teen drivers involved in fatal accidents were distracted by their cell phones.
Teen drivers are 4x more likely than adults to get into car crashes or near-crashes when talking or texting on a cell phone.
A teen driver with only one additional passenger doubles the risk of getting into a fatal car accident. With two or more passengers, they are 5x as likely.

https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-acci...tatistics.html
 
Robo said:
The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year.
Nearly 330,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving.
1 out of every 4 car accidents in the United States is caused by texting and driving.
Texting while driving is 6x more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.
Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field.
Texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
Of all cell phone related tasks, texting is by far the most dangerous activity.
94% of drivers support a ban on texting while driving.
74% of drivers support a ban on hand-held cell phone use.
Teen Driver Cell Phone Statistics

11 teens die every day as a result of texting while driving.
According to a AAA poll, 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway.
21% of teen drivers involved in fatal accidents were distracted by their cell phones.
Teen drivers are 4x more likely than adults to get into car crashes or near-crashes when talking or texting on a cell phone.
A teen driver with only one additional passenger doubles the risk of getting into a fatal car accident. With two or more passengers, they are 5x as likely.

https://www.edgarsnyder.com/car-acci...tatistics.html
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But if we don't text while driving, how do we tell our friends that we are on the way over?
 
Denver police say a 3-year-old boy was wounded in an accidental shooting at a southwest Denver apartment.

Police arrested the father of the boy, who was hospitalized in stable condition.

Police spokesman Doug Schepman says police found the child and his parents on the way to the hospital minutes after receiving a call about the shooting just after 11 a.m. The child was transferred to an ambulance.


http://www.koaa.com/story/32034817/denver-3-year-old-wounded-in-accidental-shooting
 
Legion Troll said:
A man is in critical condition after he was apparently the victim of an accidental shooting in Falls Church late Sunday night, police say.

Fairfax County Police received two 911 calls around 11:30 p.m. Sunday. They found the victim at the Fields apartment complex in the 2900 block of Stillwood Circle in Falls Church, near Gallows Road.

The victim's injuries started out as non life-threatening but are now considered life-threatening, authorities said Monday morning.

The victim and the shooter know each other, police said. They are classifying the incident at the Fields apartment complex as an accidental discharge.

It's unclear what led up to the shooting incident.



http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Outside-Falls-Church-Apartment-Complex-380485141.html
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A woman has pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from an accidental shooting that killed a 14-year-old girl.

53-year-old Robyn Merchant faces up to 10 years in prison for providing a firearm to a prohibited person. She gave a semi-automatic rifle to her 16-year-old son, Dillon Winterroth.

The weapon later went off inside a Vinton home, hitting Emma Redlinger in the head. She died later in a hospital.

Authorities say 17-year-old William Hines Junior was handling the rifle when it fired. He faces involuntary manslaughter and interference with official acts charges.

A judge has ruled Hines will stand trial in July as an adult.


http://www.kcci.com/news/woman-pleads-guilty-in-accidental-shooting-of-teen/39697958
 
A Toledo man charged with the accidental shooting of his 17-year-old girlfriend pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of negligent assault and having a weapon while under disability.

Earl K. Smith, Jr., 18, of the 500 block of North Miller Street, fired a gun March 22. Arieana Pettaway was hit in the leg and was hospitalized.

Jennifer Liptack-Wilson, an assistant prosecutor, said added charges of tampering with evidence and receiving stolen property are to be dismissed as part of a plea deal. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Dean Mandros set sentencing for July 7.





http://www.toledoblade.com/Courts/2016/05/24/Toledoan-pleads-guilty-to-accidental-shooting.html
 
A Florida woman is facing multiple firearms charges after she fired a gun during an argument with two other women Tuesday at a home near Lake Braddock Secondary School, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

There were no injuries to the two women, other residents or officers, the police said. They charged Leanne McAuslan, 44, of Orlando, Fla., with two counts of brandishing a firearm, shooting into an occupied vehicle, willfully discharging a firearm in a public place and felony destruction of property.

Officers responded at about 4:50 p.m. Tuesday to the report of a gun being fired in the 9300 block of Raintree Road, in a neighborhood of single-family houses in Burke, a few blocks from the high school. At the scene, the two women told police that they had gone to retrieve property from one of the houses.

At the home, they encountered McAuslan, a member of the homeowner’s family, and a verbal argument ensued. McAuslan then brandished a handgun at both victims and fired it,




http://patch.com/virginia/burke/fla-woman-fired-gun-during-neighborhood-dispute-police-0
 
Metro police are investigating the accidental shooting death of an 18-year-old.

He went to a friend’s house where there was a gun.

The teens thought it was unloaded, but it went off.

He's the eighth person to be accidentally shot and killed in Tennessee so far this year.

What’s more, accidental shootings in 2016 are way up from last year.

At this time last year, 9 adults were unintentionally shot. So far this year, 21 adults have been accidentally shot.



http://wkrn.com/2016/05/25/east-nashville-teenager-dies-in-accidental-shooting/
 
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Atlanta police confirm a seven-year-old child was shot in the hand and stomach on the northwest side of the city.

Police say two brothers found a gun under a mattress, and started wrestling over the gun.

The gun fired during the struggle striking the seven-year-old boy.

According to police, the victim's parents have been charged with reckless conduct.



http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/7-year-old-boy-injured-in-accidental-shooting-in-northwest-atlanta/304620109
 
Investigators are trying to figure out how a West Seattle teenager got a gun that ended up killing him.

Police say the 15-year-old boy was handling a gun when he accidently shot himself inside a duplex on Highpoint Drive Southwest.

Friends and family were in the home when the teen accidentally pulled the trigger. Some were in the same room as the teen.

"For individuals who either have firearms make sure for our kids' sake make sure we lock those things up because accidents do happen," said Seattle police spokesman Captain Pierre David.

Police are continuing their investigation.



http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/teen-shot-in-west-seattle-police-investigating/303343432
 
Police say a teenager was accidentally shot by her stepfather, a Sergeant with the Graves County Sheriff's Office.

Preliminary investigation shows Sergeant David Warner returned home in Hickory after a shift. He was unloading an off-duty firearm when he accidentally discharged one round.

His seventeen year old stepdaughter was standing in the path of the projectile and was struck by a bullet.



http://www.lex18.com/story/32072405/ksp-teenager-accidentally-shot-by-stepfather
 
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A man was fatally shot Sunday during a party at a multi-million-dollar Massachusetts home which the homeowner had rented for the Memorial Day weekend using the website "FlipKey."

Police responded to a report of a shooting in Lynnfield at about 3 a.m.

The victim, 33-year-old Keivan Heath, of Randolph, was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.




http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fatal-shooting-after-party-at-3-3m-mansion-rented-online/
 
A 19-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot at his home on Cleveland's West Side in what police are investigating as a possible accidental shooting.

The 19-year-old man is at MetroHealth Medical Center. The gunshot went through his chest and caused severe liver damage, according to police reports.

The shooting happened about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday at the man's home in the 7100 block of Brinsmade Avenue, between West 73rd Street and West 71st.

Cleveland police stopped a car taking the man to the hospital. Officers reported patching up the bullet's entrance wound on the man's chest and a possible exit wound in his back.

The man told police he was sitting on his front porch when he heard a gunshot and a car drive off. Officers noted that his description of the event was "vague at best."



http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/06/cleveland_man_in_critical_cond_1.html
 
A young Onslow County man will serve some time for accidentally shooting and killing his friend.

It’s a story all too common for the US.

983 people were involved in accidental shootings this year alone.

19-year-old Jacob Kohler, a former high school football player, became part of the statistics.

His family talked with WNCT.

“Jacob was such a good person; he was a friend to so many people, just a caring, loving, big teddy bear,” said Christina Kohler.

Jacob Kohler had high aspirations of joining law enforcement and a passion for serving others.

He also enjoyed guns and even worked at a local gun shop.

That was until Jacob’s friend, Victor Santana, began playing with one of Jacob’s guns at his home and accidentally shot Jacob in the stomach.

Jacob died after being taken to the hospital.



http://wnct.com/2016/05/31/jacksonville-man-pleads-guilty-in-accidental-shooting-death-of-friend/
 
Two juvenile boys were injured late Thursday afternoon in what appears to be an "accidental" shooting at a home in Stafford, Va., the Stafford County Sheriff Department reports.

A search warrant was obtained and the house was searched. Multiple firearms were recovered at the scene.



http://wjla.com/news/local/police-2-juveniles-injured-in-accidental-shooting-in-virginia
 
A 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead after being shot Friday morning in the Bridgeport neighborhood, according to police.

The teen was shot in the chest in the 3500 block of South Parnell Avenue at 11:35 a.m., said Officer Bari Lemmon, a police spokeswoman.

According to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, the teen was playing with a shotgun with a friend when the gun accidentally discharged and hit the boy in the chest.

A shotgun was recovered nearby, police said.



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-violence-shootings-20160603-story.html
 
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