Posted on 01/01/2019 7:46:54 PM PST by yesthatjallen
An accidental shooting in Lawrenceville on Monday afternoon killed one teenage boy and led to the death of another, police said.
The teens have been identified by police as Chad Carless, 17, and Devin Hodges, 15, both of Lawrenceville.
The incident happened when a group of teen boys were in a “makeshift shed” on a property on Riverlanding Circle around 4 p.m., Gwinnett police spokeswoman Ashley Wilson said at the scene.
Detectives said Hodges was showing a group a handgun when he accidentally fired a shot, Detective David Smith said in a statement. The shot hit his friend, Carless, who was sitting next to him in the cramped shed.
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“Carless succumbed to his injuries before help could arrive,” Smith said. “As officers were arriving on scene, Hodges was seen running between two homes, where he then took his own life with the handgun.”
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Double tragedy.
SOS. “ I didn’t know it was loaded!”
Today we teach children how to have sex with each other and every other living or dead creature, so they can have safe sex. But God help you if you try and teach a child how to properly handle a weapon!
The only safe way is to treat ALL weapons as if they are LOADED at ALL times, even if they are not loaded.
That way you don’t make a mistake.
Parents and schools need to teach gun safety, not fear.
There’s nothing stopping you from teaching your kid how to handle a gun or the opposite sex.
You just have to do it at home and not rely on the schools.
I find that responsible adult shooting parents are very caregul about teaching their kids weapons handling. 10 is our magic number.
That being said, it sounds like the boys were unattended...with a new gun. That’s almost a certain sideways incident. Through no intential plotting of evil, someone got shot.
Yep, the boys were too young to be unsupervised with guns. But, before we hang the parents for not being there....I bet the parents had no idea their gun was going to be featured at a show-and-tell. Awful tragic ACCIDENT.
twice!
A dead friend? Life in prison? What he did to his family and friends?
It must have been horrific final moments of internal terror for him to kill himself.
Tragic for everyone involved. I can't imagine how both sets of parents are going to live with it.
I hope they can find peace but I don't know how.
The news clip says the “makeshift shed” did not belong to any of the boys’ families.
So, why were they there?
Meeting up for a home invasion robbery? This would explain the gun being there...
May angels of God watch over all our children all their lives from every bad thing! But we should do our part where we can!
One can “gun proof” their kids, or “kid proof” their guns.
We chose to “gun proof” our kids and it seems to work a heckuva a lot better than the other. They’ve not shot anyone or themselves. They haven’t shot up any schools or committed any armed robberies of convenience stores.
You just have to do it at home and not rely on the schools.
And make sure he knows not to say anything in school about it.
My daughter and I had a discussion tonight about guns, and packing at all times on the ranch, at the very least.
You see, one of her daughters was at the house while the other daughter was off somewhere with her dad. The two little grand kids was grocery shopping with their nana when nana got a phone call from the daughter at the house. She was trapped inside the chicken house because a mountain lion was pacing the outer fence trying ti find a way inside. Kay tried to call her boyfriend who was in the house, but he has a phone company who doesn’t have towers in the area. The chicken shed is a bit away from the house and down a hill so he never heard Kay screaming for help.
The house is full of guns and bullets, but Kay’s boyfriend doesn’t know that, and he never got any calls or crys for help anyway! So, she called her mom who was 25 miles away. Mom(nana) contacted her husband who rushed home from feeding cattle.
The took pics of the paw prints and notified the game warden...they can shoot the animal without any legal problems when it returns again.
The ggrand kids are turning 5 in a week, and they haven’t been to the ranch since October, and that was the last time that cat came around. It killed a goose and a turkey back then. So the grandbabies are at the ranch this weekend, and so is the cat.
I taught my own children gun safety and handling when they were little because I didn’t want any accidents on our ranch, and We needed to keep loaded guns. We used a powerful gun to knock a hole in an old vehicle. The vehicle is hard, feel how soft YOU are! That gun could hurt you bad. P.k
Then, we taught them how to use our .22 rifle which always held long, magnum hollowpoints, and was kept by the door.
So, my daughter and I talked about gun safety, and teaching children how and when.
My boy was 4 when I started teaching him, one of his sisters was 2 years older. By the time she was 8, she was one heck of a sure shot. I came home one niight to find about 20 dead skunks stound the chicken shed, courtesy of middle daughter. In the dark, no lights.
Oldest daughter’s kids learned at a very early age too. They feed their families on what they hunt. They dont miss. One of them became a sharp-shooter in the Army. He trained FBI men all kinds of stuff.
It’s important for all parents to realize that guns are out there and you never know when they will be in the presence of uour child. You don’t panic about that, you teach before it happens. They need to learn how to handle that kind of situation.
There’s a right way and a wrong way.
It helps tons if a police officer can and will teach it, or a certified/licensed gun safety instructor.
Adults who freak out around guns and hid their kids from guns are next to useless as parents. Those are the kids most likely to be injured, and overly curious.
A car us more likely to kill a kid than a gun will, yet we teach them to drive. On the ranch, they’re likely to learn sooner since they aren’t strong enough to buck bales at age 7, and someone has to drive the truck.
Good and interesting posting!
I went hunting alone and brought home dinner with a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun, at age 10. Too Young at 17?
At 17 I was in the US Army.
I know that times change, but...
An accidental shooting BS.
Easier to investigate instead of a homicide and suicide.
Also makes the parents feel better.
ML/NJ
Bedroom community east of Atlanta. County Seat of Gwinnett County GA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwinnett_County,_Georgia
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