2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The tragedy has engulfed a family in the town of Florissant, Missouri after a 12-year-old boy accidentally shot his 6-year-old sister to the neck while her parents were at a party.
The boy found a 9mm caliber pistol. In a drawer in her parents' bedroom, she shot her little sister, Aliyah Palmer, with a bullet. "The boy accidentally made a discharge," said Steve Michael, a Florissant police officer, in a statement. "Investigators have determined that this was a tragic accident and there are no charges to raise at this time."
According to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, Dwandra and Marius Palmer, the children's parents were at a Christmas party and the children's 16-year-old sister was at home with them taking care of them.
"All those who responded to the call for help were parents, so you can imagine how much this tragedy has touched them when they saw a girl with a shot to the neck," said Timothy Lowery, chief of police, on Monday. from the village. "We will have counselors here to talk about it this week and make sure our officers' mental health is optimal."
For her part, Rene Sommers, director of Chesterfield Elementary School, where the young victim was studying, said that the institution was working with the Annie's Hope Center to deal with the crisis. "Our goal is to maintain the daily routine as normal," she explained through a letter to parents, which was revealed through the aforementioned newspaper. "We will share [with students] the news honestly so that the process of understanding, mourning, and healing can begin."
According to various sources so far, no charges have been filed against the parents of the minor, but the possibility remains that this will happen, because according to sources in similar cases that occurred previously in Missouri, the parents of minors have been blamed for not they appropriately secured a loaded weapon.
The investigation is now continuing with the support of District Attorney Robert McCulloch, in St. Louis County.
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