- MN: The father who mistook his 8-year-old son for a turkey while hunting and unintentionally killed him, was sentenced. Anthony M. Klaseus, 40, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter for his role in the death of his son, Hunter, 8.
- MD: During a family house party, 12-year-old Glenn C. Ellis was playing on a computer with some other teens, when one of them came across an unsecured shotgun. They started playing with the weapon and one of the teens discharged it. The blast hit Ellis in the head killing her.
- NC: Brittany Leigh Bridges, 22, was shot and killed by her estranged husband, Matthew J. Bridges, 24, in their home Sunday morning, then turned the gun on himself. Brittany’s mother discovered both dead.
- FL: An elementary school teacher was killed by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. Larry Rimmer, 40, shot and killed his wife Heather before turning the gun on himself.
- MN: A Zimmerman man killed his wife and a man they met through an online swingers club, then turned the gun on himself.
- CT: Two men killed on Hartford street in drive-by shooting.
- CA: Police were investigating a shooting that wounded a 30-year-old man in a downtown San Diego motel room — it is unclear if the shooting was intentional.
- IL: Easter Wright, 28, was shot in her head as she sat in a parked vehicle about 11:30 p.m. on North Cicero Avenue in Chicago. A 34-year-old man was shot in his chest outside the vehicle but survived.
- SC: Deputies said 34-year-old Michael Wheeler, of Spartanburg, was shot several times at a house party and was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital. The suspect later turned himself in.
- KS: One man dead, three people arrested after club shooting.
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Gun Policy News Feed- Site has been updated May 17, 2010