2 y/o shoots his sister with gun left on fridge by Moms BF

[King Ghidorah]

Police say a 2-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old sister in their Mantua home while their mother was just down the hall in the bathroom.

Investigators say 11-year-old Jamara Stevens was killed when she and her three siblings, a 14-year-old boy, 7-year-old girl and 2-year-old boy, were playing with a .357 caliber handgun with an 8-inch barrel in their home on the 3800 block of Wallace Street just before 10 a.m. Saturday.

Tiffany Goldwire and her four children were in her bedroom, when she went to use the bathroom, according to police.

At that point, the kids located the loaded firearm, which was left on top of the refrigerator by the mother’s boyfriend who visited the home earlier that morning, and the eldest child retrieved it, according to reports.

While playing with the weapon, the 2-year-old boy pointed the loaded, cocked gun in the direction of his 11-year-old sister and it discharged, striking her in the arm, according to authorities.

Investigators say the bullet then traveled through her chest, hitting her heart.

The girl was taken to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m.

The surviving children and Goldwire were taken to police headquarters, where the mother was questioned for nearly five hours, according to reports.

No charges have been filed as homicide detectives continue to investigate.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/11-Year-Old-Girl-Shot-Killed-Inside-Home-254033111.html

[King Ghidorah]

Aside from the tragic accident, It's a odd scenario trying to figure who here gets charged, and with what, their are a lot of hands in this mess, including a 14 who could face charges.

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

Clearly the 2 year old is a natural born killa.

[YaakovLee]

Apr 8, 2014 4:10:48 GMT -5 King Ghidorah said:

Aside from the tragic accident, It's a odd scenario trying to figure who here gets charged, and with what, their are a lot of hands in this mess, including a 14 who could face charges.

They should all be in jail for polluting the human race. The mom, boyfriend and 14 year old sound like idiots.

[Danimal]

Apr 8, 2014 4:54:17 GMT -5 YaakovLee said:

Apr 8, 2014 4:10:48 GMT -5 King Ghidorah said:

Aside from the tragic accident, It's a odd scenario trying to figure who here gets charged, and with what, their are a lot of hands in this mess, including a 14 who could face charges.

They should all be in jail for polluting the human race. The mom, boyfriend and 14 year old sound like idiots.

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[Evil Homer]

yeah the 14 year should have known better,

[Essential1]

That 14yr should of been looking out for those little ones.

[Rolent Tex]

I still believe in situations like this, if you're stupid and careless enough to forget your loaded gun around children and someone dies... You should face murder charges. Period.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Apr 8, 2014 10:37:32 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

I still believe in situations like this, if you're stupid and careless enough to forget your loaded gun around children and someone dies... You should face murder charges. Period.

While I truly do appreciate the sentiment of severely punishing someone partially responsible for the death of a child, I cannot agree with this. Leaving a loaded gun around children is an unforgivable mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.

[Chip]

That's gotta be quite the psychological scar for the two year old when it grows up. Eventually someone is going to tell them that they accidentally killed their sister, how do you even start to deal with that.

[Rolent Tex]

Apr 8, 2014 11:27:14 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Apr 8, 2014 10:37:32 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

I still believe in situations like this, if you're stupid and careless enough to forget your loaded gun around children and someone dies... You should face murder charges. Period.

While I truly do appreciate the sentiment of severely punishing someone partially responsible for the death of a child, I cannot agree with this. Leaving a loaded gun around children is an unforgivable mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.

Maybe not charged with murder, but something severe. That's a pretty awful mistake. If I ever owned a gun, my kids would never see it let alone know where I kept it til I was going to train them in gun safety in case if intruders. I'd never forget it anywhere because I'd never take it out.

[Malcolm]

Why the hell was the gun in the fridge? Who is this guy? Homer Simpson?

Edit: it was ON the fridge. Still a pretty stupid place to put a gun.

[Cyno]

If you leave a loaded f***ing gun out in the open around small children and someone dies due to your negligence, you deserve to be charged with involuntary manslaughter at the very least.

Mother also deserves some kind of negligence charge. And the oldest sibling should at least be in juvy.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Apr 8, 2014 12:32:50 GMT -5 Rolent Tex said:

Apr 8, 2014 11:27:14 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

While I truly do appreciate the sentiment of severely punishing someone partially responsible for the death of a child, I cannot agree with this. Leaving a loaded gun around children is an unforgivable mistake, but a mistake nonetheless.

Maybe not charged with murder, but something severe. That's a pretty awful mistake. If I ever owned a gun, my kids would never see it let alone know where I kept it til I was going to train them in gun safety in case if intruders. I'd never forget it anywhere because I'd never take it out.

No argument there. Involuntary manslaughter, and at least 5-10 years prison time.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

Surely they can charge the mum's BF for being a total imbecile, because who in their right mind would leave a loaded gun on a fridge where a child could easily find it and then pick it up.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Seems fine. Certainly not an insane gun culture's fault. Nope. Never.

[Mac]

Apr 8, 2014 20:42:44 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Seems fine. Certainly not an insane gun culture's fault. Nope. Never.

Probably gang culture. The police are investigating who owns the gun. If the boyfriend were a legal gun owner who realized that there's a responsibility that goes along with gun ownership he wouldn't have been so cavalier to lay a gun on top of a refrigerator in a house full of children. The gun is likely stolen, the boyfriend is likely either a gangbanger or wannabe gangbanger.