Two South Carolina Children Facing Charges Over Shooting Death of Farmer

[Cattledog]

8 & 9 yr olds!

An 8-year-old and 9-year-old in South Carolina are facing involuntary manslaughter charges following the shooting death of a 62-year-old farmer, police say.

After Danny Andrew Smith was found shot on his property in Walhalla in late June, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has filed a petition in family court to have the unidentified children charged in Smith’s death. When Smith was found, he had a .22 caliber gunshot wound in his back and was discovered slumped over a running tractor on June 23. His wife asked authorities to help find him when he didn’t return home that day, before they located him crashed into a tree.

“After a consultation with the Solicitor’s Office, and based on the evidence obtained in our ongoing investigation, we believe that both juvenile males discharged a firearm in a reckless manner in the direction of Mr. Smith who was bush hogging on some family property,” Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said.

Crenshaw said in his statement that it’s still “undetermined” which shot killed the 62-year-old.

https://www.complex.com/life/south-carolina-boys-facing-charges-farmer

[regnaD kciN]

1. There should be murder charges filed against those parents...

...who didn't secure their guns well enough to keep pre-teen children from taking them.

[Scrivener7]

2. The purchaser of the gun should be charged.