Post by IdahoBoy on May 12, 2009 12:09:41 GMT -5
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Idaho boy shot by friend dies
09:36 AM PDT on Tuesday, May 12, 2009
By ALYSON OUTEN / KTVB
MARSING, Idaho -- A 12-year-old Homedale boy is dead, after a friend shot him in the head Saturday.
Marcos Jaramillo of Homedale died at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. The Ada County Coroner says the boy's body will be examined later today.
Police say Jaramillo and a 14-year-old girl were playing in his Marsing apartment when a girl fired a 25-caliber automatic handgun, striking the boy in the head.
Owyhee County Sheriff Daryl Crandall confirmed that the two children are family friends of one another.
The students attended Homedale Middle School together.
Before the boy died, his middle school principal visited his family in the intensive care unit at Saint Alphonsus.
"It's got to be so, so difficult to sort it out and try and understand why it happened and how is going to play out. You just feel so much empathy and such compassion and, typically, there are no words and there really aren't," said principal Luci Asumendi-Mereness.
This community, and in particular, this school district, has been hard hit recently.
Just two weeks ago, a 14-year-old Homedale boy was killed in a car accident on his way to school.
Just two days earlier, a former Homedale High School graduate died of alcohol poisoning at the University of Idaho, where he was a student.
A lot of hardship for this close-knit community.
Counseling services were offered to students on the two other recent tragedies in Homedale, and they are being offered once again for this shooting.
In this most recent case, there has been no determination yet as to whether this was an accidental or intentional shooting.
There are also questions as to whether the owner of the gun could be held partly responsible, but so far, no charges have been filed against anyone.
Sheriff Crandall says this is a difficult, but important reminder about gun safety.
His office provides free gun locks and he says this crisis could have been averted if those precautions had been taken.
Idaho boy shot by friend dies
09:36 AM PDT on Tuesday, May 12, 2009
By ALYSON OUTEN / KTVB
MARSING, Idaho -- A 12-year-old Homedale boy is dead, after a friend shot him in the head Saturday.
Marcos Jaramillo of Homedale died at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. The Ada County Coroner says the boy's body will be examined later today.
Police say Jaramillo and a 14-year-old girl were playing in his Marsing apartment when a girl fired a 25-caliber automatic handgun, striking the boy in the head.
Owyhee County Sheriff Daryl Crandall confirmed that the two children are family friends of one another.
The students attended Homedale Middle School together.
Before the boy died, his middle school principal visited his family in the intensive care unit at Saint Alphonsus.
"It's got to be so, so difficult to sort it out and try and understand why it happened and how is going to play out. You just feel so much empathy and such compassion and, typically, there are no words and there really aren't," said principal Luci Asumendi-Mereness.
This community, and in particular, this school district, has been hard hit recently.
Just two weeks ago, a 14-year-old Homedale boy was killed in a car accident on his way to school.
Just two days earlier, a former Homedale High School graduate died of alcohol poisoning at the University of Idaho, where he was a student.
A lot of hardship for this close-knit community.
Counseling services were offered to students on the two other recent tragedies in Homedale, and they are being offered once again for this shooting.
In this most recent case, there has been no determination yet as to whether this was an accidental or intentional shooting.
There are also questions as to whether the owner of the gun could be held partly responsible, but so far, no charges have been filed against anyone.
Sheriff Crandall says this is a difficult, but important reminder about gun safety.
His office provides free gun locks and he says this crisis could have been averted if those precautions had been taken.