Authorities: Girl, 5, picked up dad's gun, shot self in head

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 3:18 pm, Wednesday, August 30, 2017

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — An autopsy shows the shooting death of a 5-year-old Maine girl at her grandparents' home was accidental: The child had picked up her father's gun and shot herself in the head.

The state medical examiner's office released its results Wednesday on Elise Dorr, of Belfast, who died Monday.

Police said the .45-caliber handgun was owned by her father, Todd Dorr, and was in a backpack in a bedroom where the two were located.

Todd Dorr told police he went to adjust the television and heard the gunshot as he moved across the room. Police say the girl retrieved the gun from the backpack and was on the bed when the gun went off. The gun wasn't in a holster and there was no gunlock.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Community-police-reeling-after-shooting-death-of-12161895.php

[Stuart G]

1. Very sad

[bettyellen]

2. Totally negligent man. That's not an accident- he fucked up. Is lyong that he turned his back a

Moment. Because if he told the truth he'd go to jail. He should go to jail, asshole.

[Not Ruth]

3. That is some world class stupid on the part of the parent

[Squinch]

4. Any parent who puts their child in that kind of danger should be charged with murder.

And to all those who are going to tell me I'm heartless and he's paid a high enough price, I say bullshit. This is murder.

Asshole.

[SoCalMusicLover]

5. No Harm, No Foul

Guns are such an everyday part of life here in the U.S., people treat them like they're cell phones or a set of keys.

Of course, no charges will be filed....just an accident. I bet he even gets to keep his gun(s). After all, he's certainly likely to be more careful next time, right?

Charge him with Negligent Homicide. If we lived in an intelligent society, that would be the correct procedure. But we live in the United Gun States Of America, and gun owners like this one, always get a pass.

At least someone else's kid didn't find the gun, so at least this "responsible" gun owner will feel pain over the loss more intensely than if it had been a stranger that died.

[Cryptoad]

6. Sad,,,,,,,

Mind Boggling How the GOP and even some here can think that making it easier for idiots to have guns leads to less gun violence!

[EarnestPutz]

7. I'm no fan of capital punishment...

...but I think that anyone whose negligence with a firearm
results in the death of any child, should be strapped into an
electric chair, with their equally negligent spouse sitting in
their lap and I should be allowed to pull the switch. My gun
nut friends think this is too extreme.