- PA: A former Marine, Christian Squillaciotti, 33, was charged in a road-rage shooting that critically injured a motorist driving his 8-year-old daughter to her home in suburban Philadelphia. Squillaciotti was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault.
- IL: Just three days before gunning down 13-year-old Sameere Conn, Sebastian Rodriguez called the boy and warned him that he was on his “death list,” according to Cook County prosecutors. It wasn’t the first time Sebastian threatened his former classmate’s life, authorities said.
- CA: A pumpkin patch security guard, Ruben Negrete, 77, was arrested on a charge of attempted murder after he shot several rounds at a group of suspected gourd poachers — injuring one of them. In a strange twist, police also arrested the 19-year-old shooting victim on an unrelated rape charge.
- CT: Rebecca and Jason Matteau pleaded not guilty to charges related to the death of their 2-year-old son Wyatt, who unintentionally shot himself with his father’s gun. Wyatt Matteau shot himself in the head by accident on Aug. 28 with his father’s .40-caliber handgun, which he took from a night stand next to his parents’ bed while his father was sleeping. Rebecca Matteau had told her son to stay away from the gun moments earlier, warning him that it was “Bad Boo Boos,” a police report says.
- AL: Joshua Noel Jones, 22, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the shooting death of Danny McKinnon, 15, of Dothan. District Attorney Doug Valeska said McKinnon was shot to death while several young people were recklessly playing with a .40-caliber handgun. Jones’ defense attorney argued during the trial that the gun accidentally went off while Jones attempted to pass it to McKinnon in the back seat of a pickup truck.
- WA: Two brothers killed in four months; motorcycle wreck claims one; hunting accident takes second. Timothy Cook was killed instantly when one of his two deer-hunting companions discharged his rifle while unloading it and shot him on Bear Mountain Ranch Road.
- SC: Touna Xiong, 33, died in the Sumter National Forest when another hunter thought he was shooting a deer. Xiong was shot in the back; he was wearing camouflage gear but no reflective clothing that would have made him easier to recognize.
- ID: David Pancheri, 53, was shot in the leg while duck hunting in what appears to be an accident. Police say Pancheri and a friend were duck hunting while another group was hunting for deer in the same area.
- ND: A 15-year-old boy, Dillen Bloomgren, was shot and killed by his 10-year-old brother in a hunting accident on Oct. 6th. Dunn County officials say the brothers were hunting with other family members during the state’s special youth pheasant hunting season Sunday afternoon.
- IL: Renay Phillips, 47, fatally shot her husband, Darryl Phillips, 39, and then turned the gun on herself in an apparent murder-suicide in their south suburban Calumet City apartment building. Darryl Phillips suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead; Renay was found dead on the scene with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- AL: Billy Pitts shot his wife, Patricia, who was a patient at the hospital with failing health before turning the gun on himself. Both were 67 years old.
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Gun Policy News Feed- Site has been updated May 17, 2010