Posted on 06/01/2005 7:54:16 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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.
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, killing the boy, Baird said.
Gonzalez is charged with deadly conduct and is being held in the Harris County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond, Baird said.
You took the words right out of my mouth!
What a moron!
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.
Being shot in the thigh and doing well is quite different than being dead.
It sure doesn't make sense. Didn't you read the story before you posted? The kid is fine, thank God.
I use a BFG 9000 to take out wasp nest myself. </sarcasm>
Somehow I think we're missing something here.
Boy Killed with Pellet Bullet from Shotgun Doing Well
No - it looks like they did an update on him ;~D
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.
Due to erroneous police reports, an earlier online version of this story mistakenly reported the boy had been killed.
In the middle of the night, no less.
This is not the true story, but the true story will be even weirder.
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.
I believe it was Albert Einstein who said, "Genius is limited, stupidity is infinite."
Heh... so it was the POLICE report that goofed, not the reporter.... how convenient.
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.
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.
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.
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".
yup , however , you forgot that ADULT BEVERAGES make everyone smarter and a better marksman,LOL!!!
AH! Indeed! So glad the little one is alive. The maroon needs rock salt taken to his behind from about 50 yds.
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