Florida Teen Dies After 8-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Him in Eye With BB [pellet] Gun: Police

ktla ^ | 02/11/2020

[BenLurkin]

Johnson was riding in the front passenger seat of an adult male friend’s car on February 1 with the driver’s 8-year-old son and 10-year-old stepson riding in the back, police said. The driver got out of the car to use an ATM.

The 8-year-old accidentally discharged a loaded Daisy 800 BB/pellet rifle while attempting to move it and shot Johnson in the left eye, according to the police.

The teen was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and died from his injuries on February 4, police said.

[SkyDancer]

A high powered pump BB/pellet rifle.

[caver]

That pellet gun is a multi pumper capable of 800 fps.

[Magnum44]

Tragic. While not firearms, BB's guns are still guns, and should be treated with all the same respect. Poor parent(s) and poor kids, one dead, at least two that will have to live with this for all their remaining days.

Treat every gun as if its loaded and never point it at anything you dont intend to destroy.

Rules taught with BB guns apply to real guns later in life (if you make it that far)

[Responsibility2nd]

Remember this story the next time someone tells you a BB gun never killed anybody.

How very sad.

[DeplorablePaul]

Yikes. Talk about “you’ll shoot your eye out” coming true. Who would think that a bb would do that much damage.

Why wasn’t the bb gun in the trunk? Seems safe gun handling was being observed.

[shotgun]

2 kids in my neighborhood in the early 70's decided to go plinking with their wrist rockets and BB's. I guess that wasn't enough fun for them so they decided to shot at each other. 1 of the boys took a BB to the temple. He went home and told his mom he didn't feel well and went to his room and lid down. When mom went to get him for dinner he was dead.

[Leep]

What a way to go. And i am not being funny.
I some times think it is a little harder to make sense out of dying in some strange way than say, getting hit by a car?

[Zhang Fei]

[That pellet gun is a multi pumper capable of 800 fps.]

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800 fps is nothing to sniff at. Bodkin arrows traveling at a quarter of that speed killed plenty of men-at-arms kitted out in chain mail. A steel BB pellet may not be heavy enough to chain mail, but it’s obviously sufficient to penetrate an eyeball and do some neurological damage:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodkin_point#Armour_penetration
https://www.soarvalleyarchers.com/faqs/how-fast-can-an-arrow-travel/
[The speed of arrows depends on the draw weight of the bow, your draw length, limb material, energy profile of the bow, bowstring material, the weight of the arrow, type of fletching on the arrow and the prevailing wind conditions. Humidity and rain also slows arrow flight. The faster an arrow travels, the flatter the flight trajectory and less deviation from wind.

Recurve bow arrows can travel up to 225 feet per second (fps) or 150mph while compound bow arrows can travel up to 300fps (200mph). Longbow arrows travel slower due to the weight of the arrows. Even at 300fps, it takes around a second to reach a 90 metre target. You hear your release first followed by the thud of the arrow hitting the target a second later (you can’t see it unless you use a telescopic sight). If you didn’t hear the thud, you’ve missed the target!]

[Hyman Roth]

We need common sense BB Gun Control

[TauntedTiger]

‘Army Ranger Kills Terrorist With MRE Spoon’

Remember this story the next time someone tells you a spoon never killed anyone.

Sticks, stones, bb guns and spoons are all lethal.

[TheTimeOfMan]

I know you were being sarcastic.

What we really need is just common sense.

[real saxophonist]

Too many people say, It's just a BB gun. Not necessarily. This one could have had a pellet chambered and pumped to the max. Definitely capable.

We used to wear out Crosman 760s by pumping them up way beyond the limit, and hunt squirrels.

When it stopped holding the pressure, just go buy another one.

[Hatteras]

We used to play war in the local woods. Anywhere from 12 to 20 of us kids all with various BB guns. Just wore an extra sweatshirt and limited pumps (those who had them) to 3 or 4. Had plenty of red marks, some minor blood shed. Only big incident I recall is one kid ambushed his brother on a trail. Dove out from behind a tree, rolled over into a kneeling position and shot him dead center in the forehead. We marveled at the shot and Richard had to have his Mom pop the BB out with a kitchen knife and he wore a bandaid to school for a few days. But since we were stupid kids, of course we were back at it again the following weekend.

[umgud]

I’ve shot these into power poles. They penetrated quite a bit. Of course these are soft wood, but far harder than human flesh. I’ve hunted a lot of small game in areas restricting firearms.

[rlmorel]

Spot on.

[FLT-bird]

Bloomberg and other Leftists move to ban pellet guns in 3....2.....1......

[GingisK]

Upon graduating from high school, my mother came up to me and said, “I am actually surprised that you lived long enough to graduate”.

[lastchance]

Yes. Good point. This is what I taught my son when he was given a BB gun. But then again I told him to treat all guns as real guns (unless you could see the water inside them) until it could be shown otherwise. Respect for firearms should be a basic part of child rearing.

[Kirkwood]

I’m thinking it was mainly the air discharged that caused the death. Injected air can be deadly if there are damaged blood vessels in the area. A bubble sucked into a vein is an embolism that will find its way to a critical organ in the body like the heart, lung, or brain.