(6/3) gunskilltoo Nov 23, 9 shooting incidents plus mass park shooting of 16

Carbon County man injured by accidental shooting in mobile home, police say


East Penn Township, Pa.  (11-22-15)   State police in Carbon County said a 24-year-old Lehighton man was injured by an accidental gunshot early Saturday morning, although his injuries are not life-threatening.

The mishap happened around 12:55 a.m. in the Stoneybrook Campground in East Penn Township, according to the news release.

Authorities did not identify the victim or the man who fired the gun.

Police said a 42-year-old man "accidentally discharged" a .40-caliber handgun inside a mobile home, hitting the victim in the right leg.

The victim was taken to St. Luke's University Hospital-Fountain Hill and is expected to recover from his injury, police said.
Pamela Lehman, Of The Morning Call


http://touch.mcall.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-85119673/



Accidental shooting under investigation in Montgomery County, officials say


NEW HANOVER TOWNSHIP, PA (11-22-15)     Police are on the scene of an accidental shooting shooting in New Hanover Township, Montgomery County, officials said.

Calls for the incident at Windy Hill and Buchert roads came in just before 5:30 p.m. Sunday.


It wasn't clear where the shooting occurred, but emergency dispatchers said the area is residential.

Few details were immediately available, and dispatchers said the injuries were not critical.


http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/accidental-shooting-under-investigation-in-montgomery-county-officials-say





Police investigate accidental shooting in Elk County



RIDGWAY -- (11-12-15)  Police said a Ridgway man shot himself in the foot as he was preparing to go bear hunting in Elk County.

State police at Ridgway were investigating the accidental shooting that happened Saturday a little before 10 a.m. on Grant Road in Ridgway Township.

Police said a 58-year-old man, whose name wasn't released, was leaving his residence to go bear hunting. He was manipulating a firearm inside a vehicle and the gun went off, striking him in the foot, police said.


http://www.goerie.com/police-investigate-accidental-shooting-in-elk-county#



Arrest made accidental shooting death


BATON ROUGE - (11-23-15)  One man is dead after what police said was an accident.

The shooting happened in the 4900 block of Jefferson Avenue, Satuday afternoon.

According to police, Demarcus Rheams, 20, and Jawan Billy, 19, was handling a gun in the back of a house when it went off, hitting Rheams in the chest.

Rheams died at the scene.

A friend of the victim, Jorey Bryant said people should not take the handling of guns lightly.

"It's 2015...a whole new year, and everybody still playing with guns...saying it was a mistake but people lives getting ended."

Billy is charged with negligent homicide.


http://www.wbrz.com/news/arrest-made-accidental-shooting-death/





REDLANDS: Woman killed by stray bullet was raising funds for beating victim's family

(UPDATE)   The victim is identified as a 43-year-old El Monte resident.  By ANNE MILLERBERND / STAFF WRITER


El Monte,  Cal.  (11-23-15)  A 43-year-old El Monte resident was identified Sunday, Nov. 22, as the woman killed by a stray bullet Friday in Redlands as she was trying to raise money for the family of another homicide victim.
Severa Santos-Velasco was "a completely innocent bystander" who was "just in the wrong place at the wrong time" when a domestic dispute broke out at an apartment complex on Oxford Drive, said Redlands police Lt. Travis Martinez.
Santos-Velasco was handing out fliers in an alley between Oxford and Lombard drives, south of East Brockton Avenue, to help the family of Rafael Templos Arce, who lived nearby and was beaten to death in an Oct. 23 assault.
Martinez said only that Santos-Velasco was an associate of Arce's family.
About 12:30 p.m., a man involved in the dispute opened fire at another man. Although Santos-Velasco was on a different property across a fence from the apartment complex, she was one of two people shot.
She was taken to Loma Linda University Medical Center, and pronounced dead in the emergency room at 1:20 p.m., the San Bernardino County Coroner's Office said.
The intended victim of the shooting, a 28-year-old man whose name hasn't been released, also was taken to a hospital, police said. Police did not disclose the extent of his injuries.
Investigators identified the shooting suspect as 55-year-old Prentice Tonell Grant. They tracked him to a home in San Bernardino and arrested him Friday evening as he tried to drive away from a house there, police said in a news release.
Carol Starr, a 10-year resident of the Redlands area where the Friday shooting occurred, said that her side of Oxford Drive seems somewhat insulated from the problems in the rest of north Redlands, crime has increased in the area over the past year or so.
“I can’t go out and about beyond my street because I don’t feel safe,” she said

In 2011, she noted, four teenage boys were shot nearby in Redlands; two died and two were wounded. Three men were convicted in the shootings.


http://www.pe.com/articles/year-787261-old-alley.html




Police: Accidental shooting in Overland Park results in death of person

Nick Sloan, Gary Brauer


OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - (11-12-15) An individual may have accidentally shot and killed another person, according to preliminary investigation results from the Overland Park Police Department.

Police reported to the scene of a shooting call at 11:45 p.m. Friday on the 8900 block of Reeder.



After arriving, officers discovered the body of a deceased individual.

An investigation into the shooting is on-going. Police say everyone on the scene cooperated with law enforcement.

No other information is available at this time.


http://www.kshb.com/news/region-kansas/overland-park/police-accidental-shooting-in-overland-park-results-in-death-of-person




Buffalo hunter accidentally shot in Chautauqua County

By MARK SCOTT



Arkwright, Ny. (11-23-15)  Shotgun deer-hunting season began Saturday. There was one casualty.

A Buffalo man was shot in his left leg by a fellow hunter in the Chautauqua County Town of Arkwright. He was taken to the Erie County Medical Center where he was treated and released. Authorities say the shooting was accidental.

The state Environmental Conservation Department says the deer herd is thinner this year because of the harsh winter. Officials handed out fewer doe permits this year. Hunters in New York took more than 240,000 deer in 2014.


http://news.wbfo.org/post/buffalo-hunter-accidentally-shot-chautauqua-county#stream/0




Police: Shooting at New Orleans playground wounds 16


By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - (11-23-15) Hundreds of people were gathered at a New Orleans playground for a block party and music video shoot when two groups in the crowd opened fire on each other, wounding 16 people in the shocking Sunday evening violence, police said.


Police were on their way to break up a big crowd at Bunny Friend Playground when gunfire erupted at the park in the city's 9th Ward, the police said in a statement Sunday.

Police said 10 people were taken to the hospital in ambulances while another six were taken in private vehicles. Photos of the scene showed emergency workers wheeling some of the wounded to ambulances on gurneys while other people who appeared to be in pain lay on the ground.

Joseph Jordan was inside a house across the street from the park with his friend, who gave her first name as Raven, when they heard gunshots. Later someone called Raven and told her that her niece had been shot. The two rushed to the hospital to check on the 14-year-old, who had been shot three times in the leg.

Speaking of the hospital, Jordan said: "It's still crowded back there."

Outside University Medical Center, Kawandra Hayney said she had been driving about two or three blocks from the playground with her daughter when people ran by shooting. Her 14-year-old daughter was hit once in the knee and five times in her backside. Hayney pulled her daughter out of the truck and under it to hide, then into a nearby ditch.

"I saw the police coming, and I ran over to them," she said. She said she later counted seven bullet holes in her truck.

Investigators don't know what started the shooting, police spokesman Tyler Gamble said. He said all the victims are listed in stable condition. He said the victims suffered either direct gunshot wounds or were grazed by bullets.

Large stadium lights lit up the park Sunday night as police continued to work the crime scene. Witnesses told police that the gunmen ran off after the shooting was over.

As many as 500 people could have been in the park when the shooting happened, said police chief Michael Harrison. Police earlier said the people were there for an impromptu music video but Gamble later told reporters that while a video was being filmed, the event was a primarily a block party. Gamble said that neither the block party nor the music video had a permit.

Police Superintendent Michael Harrison told WDSU-TV that the shooting might have been gang-related. Police had been helping with a parade that had been taking place about a block away from the park, and were able to quickly get to the park, Harrison told the TV station.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu, speaking in a news conference aired on WWL-TV, called on people who were in the park to come forward with information. The police have also asked people who might have any video of the shooting to bring it to police.

"At the end of the day it's really hard to police against a bunch of guys who decide to pull out guns and settle their disputes with 300 people in between them. That's just not something you can tolerate in the city," Landrieu said.

This story has been corrected to show that the area where the shooting happened is Bunny Friend Playground, according to the New Orleans Police, not Bunny Friend Park.



http://www.kctv5.com/story/30582040/police-shooting-at-new-orleans-playground-wounds-16





Authorities: Man wounds self on 1st day of firearm deer hunt



CLARENDON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - (11-23-15) Authorities say a 21-year-old man was wounded in an accidental shooting on the first day of Michigan's firearm deer season.

The Calhoun County sheriff's department says the man was hunting in Clarendon Township on Sunday morning when he dropped a semi-automatic shotgun while trying to remove his jacket.

The department says the man was shot in the upper torso. Emergency crews responded and he was taken to a hospital for treatment.

The wound wasn't considered life-threatening. The shooting happened near the southern Michigan village of Homer, where the man lives.


http://www.wndu.com/news/michigan/headlines/Authorities-Man-wounds-self-on-1st-day-of-firearm-deer-hunt-350520251.html




Attorney confirms identity of driver in fatal Kelly High School shooting

(11-22-15) By BEN KLEINE ~ Southeast Missourian



Kaden Robert's family attorney confirmed Landon M. Urhahn, 18, of Benton, Missouri, was the Kelly High School student who was driving the truck when Kaden Robert was accidentally killed in June 2014.
Curt Poore said Urhahn brought the vehicle to school which contained the two guns, one of which accidentally discharged and hit 15-year-old Kaden Robert in the head, injuring him fatally.

Urhahn was arrested Thursday on suspicion of bringing a 9 mm pistol to school after he talked about the weapon during an argument, Scott County sheriff's deputies said in a news release last week.

Marijuana and drug paraphernalia also were found in Urhahn's vehicle, deputies reported. Urhahn is charged with unlawful use of a weapon, misdemeanor possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.


Marijuana and drug paraphernalia also were found in Urhahn's vehicle, deputies reported. Urhahn is charged with unlawful use of a weapon, misdemeanor possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia


It also was Poore's understanding that Urhahn was one of the two students who was suspended after the Robert shooting.
Urhahn has reportedly been released on $2,500 cash bond and is scheduled for arraignment in Scott County Court on Dec. 16.

http://www.semissourian.com/story/2252674.html



UPDATE: Man upgraded to fair condition after being shot in hunting accident

Wausau Wi., (11-22-15)  A man is now in fair condition after he was shot in his upper torso while hunting Sunday morning, according to a spokesperson at Ministry St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.

Lt. Fred Goch of the Marathon County Sheriff's Department said they received a call at 7:59 a.m. Sunday that a hunter had been shot on the 4900-block on West State Highway 153 in the Township of Emmet.

Edgar Ambulance responded to the scene and transported the man to Ministry St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield for treatment.

The Wisconsin DNR is investigating.

http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/Man--352943361.html