An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy allegedly shot his father to death after previously having his Nintendo Switch handheld gaming system taken away.
The boy is facing criminal homicide charges after a 13 January shooting at his family’s home in Duncannon Borough.
As put in court documents obtained and reported by WGAL News 8, the case illustrates how easily children can access guns in the US, where firearms are ubiquitous.
The victim was reportedly discovered in the bedroom he shared with his wife, which court documents say is connected to their son’s bedroom by a closet.
Police reported it was the child’s birthday, and he had entered the bedroom shouting: “Daddy’s dead.” Troopers at the scene also reportedly said that they heard the son tell his mother: “I killed Daddy.”
Police said the shooting occurred after the couple had gone to bed shortly past midnight. The child reportedly told authorities that he had had a good day with his parents, but the documents reportedly state that he became “mad” when his father told him it was time to go to bed.
According to the news outlet, the court document says that the boy told police he found a key to the gun safe in his father’s drawer in his parent’s bedroom. He reportedly unlocked it while attempting to locate his Nintendo Switch – which had previously been taken away from him – and found a gun.
This must be the fault of violent video games
Not guns
Nope
Inb4 Trump bans the Nintendo Switch thinking it’s a Glock switch
nintendo switches are quite big for his hands.
Ah yes, good idea to get rid of all guns. I’m sure Trump’s ICE and SS will find their jobs a lot easier.
Because as we see, all those good guys with guns are scaring ICE away.
What is wrong with responsible gun ownership? We have licenses and registries for vehicles why not for firearms? Nobody said get ride of all firearms, that was on you.
Easy enough for them so far. Literally no Americans shooting back.
It does put the lie to that argument, but at the same time what do you really think would happen if lefties went kinetic on ICE across the states? The protestors aren’t stupid, it’d be martial law.
It will probably go that way somehow or another, probably some false flag a la Chechnya. But at least don’t oblige them.
What’s the advantage in dragging it out?
You kidding? The whole point of marital law would be to halt new elections. They aren’t planning to leave.
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Sounds like a disturbed kid is what was responsible. Gun, knife, hammer are all just means to an end.
It’s far more difficult to kill with a knife or hammer.
That’s literally why guns exist, to make killing easier.