Shooting at wasp nest, neighbor kills sleeping boy

associated press ^ | June 1, 2005

[Mrs.Nooseman]

You took the words right out of my mouth!

What a moron!

[tfecw]

I'm not sure you you're supposed to call but the link has been updated. They have a retraction on the page now.

Boy alive, shooter still an idiot.

[Dog Gone]

That's just weird. When I posted the story the link led to an AP report in the Chronicle. Now it leads to a Houston Chronicle story which contradicts the earlier report.

Being shot in the thigh and doing well is quite different than being dead.

[saleman]

It sure doesn't make sense. Didn't you read the story before you posted? The kid is fine, thank God.

[PogySailor]

I use a BFG 9000 to take out wasp nest myself. </sarcasm>

Somehow I think we're missing something here.

[dighton]

Let's summarize, then.

“Boy Killed with Pellet Bullet from Shotgun Doing Well”

[HairOfTheDog]

No - it looks like they did an update on him ;~D

[deport]

A 5-year-old Pasadena boy was killed while sleeping in his bedroom today when a bullet fired by a neighbor to break up a wasp's nest strayed and struck the boy.

Someone needs to get this story straight.... The clild wasn't killed according to the following article in the Chronicle.....

June 1, 2005, 10:08AM

Shooting at wasp nest, neighbor hits boy in bed

By RUTH RENDON
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

A 5-year-old Pasadena boy was injured while sleeping in his bedroom today when a bullet fired by a neighbor to break up a wasp's nest strayed and struck the boy.

Pasadena police spokesman Sgt. J.M. Baird said Romeo Gonzalez, 18, was in his second-floor apartment at 3637 Shaver shortly after midnight when he decided to shoot at a wasp's nest hanging from a nearby tree.

Romeo loaded a 12-gauge shotgun and fired at the wasp's nest. The shotgun pellet Gonzalez fired entered a first-floor bedroom where David Marban was sleeping, striking him in the thigh, Baird said.

The boy's in the hospital but is reportedly doing well

Gonzalez is charged with deadly conduct and is being held in the Harris County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond, Baird said.

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Due to erroneous police reports, an earlier online version of this story mistakenly reported the boy had been killed.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Who in their right mind takes a scattergun to a wasp nest in a neighborhood?

In the middle of the night, no less.

This is not the true story, but the true story will be even weirder.

[Dog Gone]

I posted the story that was there at the time. The link now has this:

Due to erroneous police reports, an earlier online version of this story mistakenly reported the boy had been killed.

They still can't decide whether it was a bullet or a pellet.

[mbynack]

I think it doesn't make sense because you are under estimating how stupid people can be ;)

I believe it was Albert Einstein who said, "Genius is limited, stupidity is infinite."

[HairOfTheDog]

Due to erroneous police reports, an earlier online version of this story mistakenly reported the boy had been killed.

Heh... so it was the POLICE report that goofed, not the reporter.... how convenient.

[tfecw]

Submit that title to the Washington Post. It says Think of the Children, Guns are Bad, Pellets are worse, and All's well that Ends well all in one line. I smell a Pulitzer!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A stray pellet and a non-fatal injury makes much more sense.

[cajungirl]

Those wasp kill cans that shoot a blob of the stuff for 20 feet work pretty well, wonder if he was just fooling around. Stupid thing to do.

[azhenfud]

"And if it was a shot shell, how was it able to penetrate an adjacent building and actually kill someone?"

Some of the guys I work with went to a hunting preserve where pheasant were released from a tower and shot at, this time using steel shot. Normally the folk park their trucks with the windshields to the woods, but this time for some odd reason they backed into the parking spaces leaving their windshields smiling for all that steel. There were thirteen windshields shot that day. BOY am I glad I wasn't invited - since I don't "hunt".

Apparently the shot in the story in question was discharged into an open window from the second floor of an adjacent building.

In NC, a week or so ago, a girl went to move a shotgun from a recliner in a neighbor's house when it discharged and the shot went through the wall and killed her dad who was on the outside of the mobile home.

[Cogadh na Sith]

A 5-year-old Pasadena boy was injured while sleeping in his bedroom today when a bullet fired by a neighbor to break up a wasp's nest strayed and struck the boy.

Now they changed the story....

What I have learned from the news:

stray rounds are incredibly attracted to children, the attraction is inversely proportional to age.

Bullets are also attracted to the guys with the most kids or the most recently married.

Furthemore, a bad guy can be shot 15 times and drive off to hold up another store and rape a woman, but a newlywed cop with a pregnant wife will be killed nearly instantly by a grazing shot to the pinkie.

[isthisnickcool]

(SCENE ONE)

BOY: It's only a flesh wound!

AP REPORTER: It is not! That shotgun pellet has taken off both your arms you dumb little ba$tard!:

(SCENE THREE)

MAN PULLING CART: "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"

AP REPORTER WITH YOUNG BOY OVER SHOULDER: "This ones dead!"

BOY: "I am not!"

AP REPORTER: "Are too!"

ANNOUNCER: "We wanted to sack the AP reporter in scenes one and three but that's not allowed so he has been reported to news anchor at CBS".

[Dad yer funny]

yup , however , you forgot that ADULT BEVERAGES make everyone smarter and a better marksman,LOL!!!

[azhenfud]

"A stray pellet and a non-fatal injury makes much more sense."

AH! Indeed! So glad the little one is alive. The maroon needs rock salt taken to his behind from about 50 yds.