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Texas Teen Accidentally Kills Himself While Taking Gun Selfie: Police
KTLA ^
| Cnn Wire
Posted on 09/02/2015 12:19:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A 19-year-old Houston, Texas, man accidentally killed himself Tuesday while taking selfies with a gun, according to police.
The gun blast hit Deleon Alonso Smith, a day ahead of starting community college, in the throat, CNN affiliate KPRC reported.
Family members were shocked.
"It's the worst feeling in my life," Eric Douglas, the victim's uncle said.
"It's a numb feeling. It's still unbelievable," Smith's grandmother Alma Douglas told the station.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: darwinaward; texas
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:19:57 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:21:29 PM PDT
by
telstar12.5
(...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
To: BenLurkin
Hope he had not reproduced.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:21:56 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
To: BenLurkin
A 2015 Darwin Award Nominee.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:22:10 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: BenLurkin
He was just turning his life around. Getting ready to enter college...
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:22:10 PM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
To: BenLurkin
His Mom and Dad dint du nuttin in raising him better?
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:22:48 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: BenLurkin
Family members were shocked. I'll bet they weren't as shocked as he was - for that brief split second.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:23:14 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: Cowboy Bob
Yeah, we’ve hear it all before.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:23:23 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: BenLurkin
Apparently, his phone was smarter than he was.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:23:37 PM PDT
by
Nachoman
(My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
To: BenLurkin
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:23:53 PM PDT
by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
To: BenLurkin
Ahhhhh!!!!
Rule #1: Always assume the gun is loaded.
Rule #2: Don’t point it at anything you don’t want to destroy.
More social Darwinism...
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:23:53 PM PDT
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes rights)
To: BenLurkin
To: hadaclueonce
Not to worry — if he had, you and I are feeding the little bastards.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:25:09 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: WayneS
I'll bet they weren't as shocked as he was - for that brief split second. WOW. LMAO, but wow. Good point.
To: BenLurkin
My mother told me if i dont have something nice to say..., so i wont say anything.
but the other comments are cracking me up! God forgive me.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:26:10 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: telstar12.5
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:27:54 PM PDT
by
al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: hadaclueonce
An earlier article indicated that he had a one-year-old and a three-year-old.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:28:27 PM PDT
by
Bob
(No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
To: BenLurkin
his rap career nipped in the bud!
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:28:34 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: BenLurkin
The cousin told police they found the gun earlier in the day. Of course you did.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:29:09 PM PDT
by
dead
("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
To: MAexile
Rule #3: Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.
Rule #4: Be sure of your target, and what lies beyond it.
Ya know ... I think this dolt managed to violate all four. And now he’s dead. Obeying even one of these rules ... ANY one of them ... would have kept him alive.
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posted on
09/02/2015 12:29:11 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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