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A 5-year-old LaPlace girl died Saturday (May 21) after she accidentally shot herself while playing with a handgun, the St. John the Baptist Sheriff's Office said. Haley Moore was shot in the chest at the home of her father, Eric Moore, on Country Club Drive and brought to a local hospital where she died. Neighbor Joy Ursin spoke with Moore Sunday morning said he is devastated. "He's faulting himself," she said. Of Harley, Ursine said, "She was full of life, a very spunky little girl. She was just a firecracker." Police have not offered any additional information since Saturday, but...

One gunshot rattled nerves inside the Bordentown Township Municipal Building on Tuesday afternoon and sent people scrambling to help 57-year-old Police Chief Frank Nucera who was hit in the leg. "I knew something big was going on if I'm seeing all these cop cars coming to the station rather than leaving the station," witness Deborah Nabosse said. It was around 4:00 p.m. when investigators say the chief, who is also serving as town administrator in the small Jersey community, was inside the tax collector's office. The Burlington County Prosecutor's Office says a child, described as a preteen, somehow got his...

AU.S. toddler accidently killed herself after mistaking her stepfather's handgun for a Nintendo Wii control. Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan, three, shot herself in the stomach with the .380 caliber, semi-automatic weapon after finding it lying on a table in the living room. Her mother was sitting at the computer just a few feet away while her three-month-old brother was also lying nearby. Investigators today said that the child had probably mistaken the weapon for a Wii control.

Andre Doss said he responded to his father's call for help at his local business and called 9-1-1 himself. Police arrived and shot him instead. In a CBS 2 HD exclusive we have the audio recording of just what happened when police were executing a search warrant in Roselle, N.J. When Andre Doss was shot in the upper torso, family members said by a police officer, it was all being recorded. Doss: "Oh Lord, please, please, please, please, please, please, please ... call an ambulance! Somebody shot me!" Doss: "Why did you shoot me? Why did you shoot me sir?...

READINGTON, N.J. (AP) An FBI agent who was killed Thursday when a stakeout team opened fire on three armed bank robbery suspects might have been shot accidentally by another agent, the FBI said.

An 11-year-old East Brunswick boy who fatally shot his friend last month was surrounded by guns. In the East Brunswick townhouse where the boy lived with his father and grandmother, investigators discovered a cache of 98 firearms, nearly all unsecured, authorities said. In the bedroom he shared with his father, police found four rifles and 21 handguns, five of which were loaded. Middlesex County authorities said yesterday the boy's easy access to weapons led to the June 28 shooting death of Alexander Khoudiakov, 12. The boy's father, Michael Guerriero, 46, and grandmother, Josephine Guerriero, 72, who also lives in the...

NYT: CHENEY FACES GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION IF MAN DIES... In Texas, Carlos Valdez, the district attorney in Kleberg County, said a fatality would immediately spur a new report from the local sheriff and, most likely, a grand jury investigation... MORE...

Alas, a scandal the city slickers in the White House press room, who know everything, can't understand. Dick Cheney peppers a man with birdshot on a quail hunt in Texas. Guns, bad. Quail hunting, bad. So far, so good. There must be a capital crime in here somewhere. But what happened next could have been out of a rewrite of "Scoop," Evelyn Waugh's classic press novel about the empty vanities of posturing journalists trying to cover their ignorance with bluster and bullying. The man who took a face full of birdshot -- tiny pellets the size of BBs -- was...

Montgomery County police yesterday charged a Germantown man with knowingly giving a gun to a felon whose 8-year-old son brought it to a day care center Tuesday and, while playing with it, shot a 7-year-old girl in the arm. Clyde Colmes Jr., of the 13200 block of Lake Geneva Way, has been charged with giving a .38-caliber Taurus revolver to the boy's father, John Linwood Hall. Police said Mr. Colmes, 53, knew that Hall had a criminal record when he gave him the gun. Mr. Colmes also was charged with participation in an unlawful transfer or sale of a regulated...

Son of sheriff's deputy reportedly shoots sister to deathBATTLE GROUND, Wash. (AP) -- A 10-year-old girl believed to be the daughter of a Clark County sheriff's deputy was shot to death by her brother at their home near this southwest Washington town. The 13-year-old boy attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation but was unsuccessful after a gunshot hit his sister in the head about 7:15 p.m. Monday, Sheriff's Sgt. Melanie Kenoyer said. The parents were away at the time but returned soon afterward. Kenoyer said investigators believe the shooting was accidental. The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver, Wash., quoted three unnamed sources familiar with...

No charges will be filed in girl's fatal shooting Prosecutors won't seek murder or firearms charges against Hallis Jamison. Meanwhile, new details emerged in the case. By TAD DICKENS THE ROANOKE TIMES An 82-year-old Roanoke man will not face charges in the Feb. 26 shooting of a 15-year-old girl standing on his front porch, prosecutors announced Friday. A Roanoke grand jury made a rational and sound decision when it declined March 4 to indict Hallis Jamison on murder and firearms charges, Roanoke prosecutors said in a news release, which included details of the incident that have not previously been released....