Re: => Negligence by "trained agents" becomes a crime once they become unemployed!

"Bo Raxo" <crimenewscenter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Benj" <bjacoby@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On May 9, 9:44 pm, "_ Prof. Jonez _" <thep...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Boy, 5, Shoots Little Sister After Fight
>>>
>>> May 9, 2008, 1:55 PM PDT
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>>>  Indianapolis -- A man whose 5-year-old son accidentally shot and
killed 
>>> his
>>> sister was arrested at the cemetery before the little girl's burial.
>>>
>>> James Michael Booher faces charges that include child neglect for 
>>> allegedly
>>> leaving a semiautomatic handgun where his son could find it.
>>>
>>> Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi says 26-year-old Booher should
have 
>>> been
>>> more careful in keeping the gun away from his son.
>>>
>>> He says that is true especially since the boy had taken the gun from 
>>> atop a
>>> refrigerator and shot a bullet into a kitchen cabinet eight months
ago.
>>>
>>> Police say her brother climbed up to the top shelf of a bookcase to
get 
>>> the gun.
>>> Then shot his 4-year-old Makayla in the face.
>>>
>>> Booher was being held in the Marion County Jail on three counts of 
>>> felony
>>> neglect. He faces up to 56 years in prison.
>>
>> Facts are Booher had the gun as a security guard and thus qualified
>> with the "training" that the "gun control" crowd demand as a
>> qualification for gun owner****p.  Booher had a hint that the 5 year
>> old had picked up a fascination with guns from TV when the boy
>> previously retrieved the gun and fired into a kitchen cabinet.
>
> The gun control crowd wants people who let a child access a loaded gun
to 
> be prosecuted.  The first time this 5 year old managed to get his hands
on 
> a loaded gun, the gun owner should have been charged with a felony, and 
> lost his right to possess a firearm.
>
> Then there would have been no dead 4 year old.
>
> That's how gun control works. Or it would, if the gun lovers had any 
> sanity, but instead they stamp their little feet and whine that any 
> attempt at regulating guns is a prelude to wholesale confiscation.  That

> lie killed yet another child.
>
>
> Bo Raxo


From an article I already posted on this case.


Authorities said Booher's home on Sunday contained weapons such as Chinese
throwing stars and samurai swords. Brizzi said Booher's home was a
dangerous
environment.

"It wasn't just one thing that led to the charging decision. It was sort
of
a culmination of events -- the prior shooting, and all these weapons,"
Brizzi said. "If it wasn't the gun, it could have been any number of
weapons
that could have put these kids in a dangerous place."


< I saw no indication the authorities *knew* about the previous shooting 
incident until *after* the child killed his sister.   It sounds to me like

this little boy has far deeper problems.  This was no *accident*, he went 
and got the gun and shot his sister, purposely. >


INDIANAPOLIS -- The father of a 5-year-old boy who police say fatally shot
his 4-year-old sister told re****ters Thursday that neglect charges against
him should be dropped, arguing the emotional pain he feels is punishment
enough.

"I have to live with this for the rest of my life. I don't know if I can,"
James Michael Booher (pictured) tearfully said to re****ters in an
interview
at the Marion County Jail



But authorities argue the charges are warranted in part because Sunday's
shooting was not the first time that Booher's son had found a gun at home
and fired it.

"Booher knew that his son could get access to the gun," said Marion County
Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, who filed three felony counts of neglect against
Booher on Thursday.

Police said the boy had a confrontation with his sister, Makayla Booher,
on
Sunday morning shortly before the shooting at their home in the 6100 block
of Massachusetts Avenue. The boy went downstairs, used a chair to reach a
gun at the top of a bookcase, went back upstairs and shot his sister at
close range, police said.

Authorities said that eight months ago, when the family was living at a
different Indianapolis home, the boy used a chair to reach his father's
gun
atop a refrigerator. On that day, he fired a bullet into a kitchen
cupboard,
police said.

James Booher was aware that his son "knew how to operate the gun and in
fact
had fired the gun eight months before," Brizzi said.

After Sunday's shooting, according to police, Booher told investigators he
thought the .40-caliber semiautomatic gun had been stored unloaded because
its magazine had been removed. Police said that despite the magazine's
removal, a bullet still was in the gun.

Two years ago, police said, child welfare workers removed the children
from
their father because medical personnel learned that the girl had broken
ribs. The welfare workers initially suspected abuse but eventually decided
not to re****t the case to police, 6News' Jack Rinehart re****ted.

Authorities said Booher's home on Sunday contained weapons such as Chinese
throwing stars and samurai swords. Brizzi said Booher's home was a
dangerous
environment.

"It wasn't just one thing that led to the charging decision. It was sort
of
a culmination of events -- the prior shooting, and all these weapons,"
Brizzi said. "If it wasn't the gun, it could have been any number of
weapons
that could have put these kids in a dangerous place."

Booher was arrested Wednesday at the conclusion of Makayla's funeral.
According to the prosecutor's office, he had been hiding in the days after
Sunday's shooting, and police decided to arrest him at the funeral in part
because they considered him a flight risk, Rinehart re****ted.

In Thursday's interview at the jail, Booher said he perhaps "wasn't the
safest person" and that he perhaps "should have done something different,"
but that he never intended harm to come to his children.

"I would never intentionally hurt my children or put them in harm's way,
ever," he said.

He also had a message for his son: "That it wasn't his fault and that
daddy
still loves him very much."

Booher was charged with two Class D felony counts of neglect and one Class
A
count, which itself carries a penalty of between 20 to 50 years in prison
with a conviction.

Makayla's mother, Michelle Vensko, told 6News Wednesday that she doesn't
think he should be charged.

The boy and his teenage sister, who was also home at the time of the
shooting, were placed in foster care.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/16201644/detail.html


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