Posted on 09/07/2015 6:49:07 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A 19-year-old is dead, after accidentally shooting himself in the neck while posing for photos with a gun.
The shooting happened at an apartment complex in the 9800 block of Forum Park in southwest Houston. Police say Deleon Smith found a gun and was taking photos of his cousin and himself.
Police say Smith was posting photos to social media when the 19-year-old accidentally shot himself and died. Police have taken his cell phone as part of their investigation.
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No mention of father or mother or Easter bunny in the article. Poor kid raised by the village I suppose.
The number of innocent lives that were saved when he shot himself is known only to God.
When posing for pics with your guns,always make sure that the guns are loaded.Ghetto rule #167.
murder by cousin
What? You didn’t know that he was just turning his life around?
I read another article about this a few days ago that said he “thought” the gun was unloaded...
That was one of the most important things I was taught about firearm safety. There is no such thing as an unloaded gun, until l open the thing and see for myself. Until then, it’s loaded.
I don’t have to guess, mine are always loaded. That eliminates the guess work. I don’t have to even look, I KNOW it’s loaded. But only one does not have a round in the chamber, if someone breaks into my house the first thing I want him to hear is when I shift one into my pump shotgun...the sound criminals fear most...
Another is this - Never point any gun at any person, except in self defense. Including yourself.
Now why has nobody pointed out that this idiot didn’t have sense enough to check and see if it was really unloaded?
Just cleaning out the gene pool...
Not really. 19 and he already had two daughters, probably from two different women, and they will grow up to have five each, from five different fathers......
Do not take Selfie with loaded gun, it has no camera.
Hey bro! ...check out this Selfie. - POW -
As expected...
Maybe the deceased was very civic minded and just decided it was best to kill him self.
True. I hadn’t considered that.
We need more upstanding citizens like him then...
“I don’t resent paying taxes to support his small daughters...”
I do.
If he has not reproduced then he is a top contender for a the Darwin Award.
If he did not reproduce, I must confess that I am grateful that he removed his genes from the gene pool.
Well, there goes his chance for the Darwin Award.
No loss to the world.
`Evil Gun Kills Black Child’
Adios, scumbag. You won’t be missed.
Back when I was a cub scout leader, I was teaching BB gun safety at a regional event.
I told one group that I knew beyond all shadow of doubt that the BB gun I had was empty, yet I still treated it as if loaded.
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