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4-year-old killed by celebratory bullet (in church with his mother)
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Posted on 01/01/2010 4:46:43 PM PST by rawhide
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Very sad!
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:46:46 PM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
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Four-year-old Marquel Peters was killed by a stray bullet during a New Years Eve service at his DeKalb church.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:50:40 PM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:51:35 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: rawhide
Terrible. God be with them.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:52:39 PM PST
by
stevio
(Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
To: fieldmarshaldj
I’m having a little trouble buying this story.
To: rawhide
Poor beautiful little baby. Play in heaven now, dear child, and wait for your mommy to join you there someday.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:54:33 PM PST
by
ottbmare
(I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
To: rawhide
Horrible. There is no excuse for discharging a killing tool for other than it’s designed purpose, including practice. I hope the person who fired that round realizes what he/she did.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:56:05 PM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
To: rawhide
Phipps said the church members prayed for the child, and continued with the planned concert, believing the child would survive his injury. Instead of going straight to the hospital, church members prayed for the child, and continued with the planned concert. How insane is that?
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:56:42 PM PST
by
SunTzuWu
To: rawhide
Oddly enough I saw a rerun of the mythbusters episode where they tested this one today.
It seems a true straight up shot wouldn’t have the energy to penetrate the skull but just a couple degrees off straight up allows the projectile to keep its ballistic energy.
I suspect they’ll be able to trace the bullet back to where it was fired from.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:56:45 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Dusty Road
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:56:53 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Merry Christmas, FReepers!)
To: rawhide
This is a SERIOUS problem in certain parts of the Atlanta area - celebratory gunfire for the New Year, with the celebrants either shooting in the air without caring where it comes down, or actually shooting through walls or cars.
Last year somebody sued the landlord of an apartment complex for failure to maintain safe premises -- because she was struck by a stray bullet fired by an unknown person during New Year's revels.
It must have been a fairly large rifle bullet to penetrate the roof of a church building and still retain enough velocity to kill this poor little kid.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:57:19 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
To: Dusty Road
You have a point. There are many possibilities here.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:58:01 PM PST
by
ez
("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
To: SunTzuWu
That’s how I read it at first but I think it was just poorly written. I suspect the parents took the child to the hospital and the church went on with the program.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:58:19 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: rawhide
I don’t know how this happened, but I don’t believe a bullet could reach enough terminal velocity to come back down at the speed required to go THROUGH A ROOF and then enter a human (albeit small) skull.
Something is just not right here.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:58:25 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: rawhide
Tragic what happened to the little boy.
However this seems strange to me. I wouldn’t think a falling bullet would have the velocity to penetrate a roof and kill someone.
I’ll have to do some checking.
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posted on
01/01/2010 4:58:54 PM PST
by
babygene
(Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
To: rawhide
This innocent little boy is dead because some idiot decided to celebrate the new year by firing off his gun. The idiot should be arrested and charged with murder if he is caught.
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posted on
01/01/2010 5:01:01 PM PST
by
peeps36
(Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
To: rawhide
There are neighborhoods in most metropolitan areas where this third world behavior takes place.
In the Phoenix area, the cops have the technology to track down the source of the bullets.
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posted on
01/01/2010 5:05:21 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(:: The government will do for health care what it did for real estate. ::)
To: Dusty Road
Im having a little trouble buying this story.I'm guessing you don't know much about guns...and neither did whoever the idiot was that shot into the air. those bullets don't go off into never never land.
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posted on
01/01/2010 5:07:31 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
To: autumnraine
I don’t know....seems to me that if a bullet was falling back down after beig fired in the air, it would just bounce off the roof not go through it...weird.
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posted on
01/01/2010 5:07:38 PM PST
by
CAluvdubya
(Palin 2012...YOU BETCHA!.--Praying for Rush)
To: autumnraine
...a bullet could reach enough terminal velocity... The article did not specify the angle of the trajectory. If fired near 48 degress the bullet would carry to maximum range and would not dwell in the air long enough to slow down that much.
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posted on
01/01/2010 5:07:51 PM PST
by
GingisK
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