A 12-year-old Pinson boy died after getting shot in the chest while he and other children played with an air-powered pellet rifle.
Brendan Willis was shot by a 9-year-old playmate outside his father's home Saturday just before 6 p.m. The victim had taken a pellet rifle belonging to his father out of the garage and loaded it. He and four other neighborhood children had been playing with it.
The victim pumped the rifle seven times, handed it to the 9-year-old and stretched out his arms stating "Shoot me, I am wearing a bullet proof shirt." He was wearing an Under Armour T-shirt that he apparently thought was bullet proof. The 9-year-old fired one shot from the pellet rifle, striking the victim in the chest area.
The victim then went into the house and told his father he had been shot, showing him the wound. The father called 911, and the victim was transported to Children's Hospital, where he died in surgery. Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Randy Christian said the district attorney's office will determine if charges should be filed.
It says he died in surgery. I've been shot with a pellet gun before. Didn't need sugery afterward.
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Obviously you were not shot in the chest where the heart and major vessels lie!
I was hit in my right chest/armpit area. It left a dent, but didn't penetrate the skin that I can remember.
That had to be one hell of a pellet to get through the skin, muscle, and apparently the rib cage to cause enough damage to warrent surgery. I'm just wondering, though the pellet was obviously the cause of the surgery, was the surgery itself the cause of death.
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Sounds like it was really close range when he was hit. If it hit just right it could miss the ribs and go into the heart/lung area. And any surgery could be life threatening.
I agree bama it sounds like he was probably at close range. As for the surgery well removing a pellet from the heart can be pretty risk. They would have to put the child on heart lung bypass I assume so they can stop the heart long enough to remove the pellet. That's a risk within itself.
I know that every kid around my age in Demopolis got our "lesson" about pellet guns when boy in my grade was shot in the eye.
This is a tragedy, but we can hope that it will not be a pointless tragedy if it cause parents to sit down and talk to their children about guns, be they shotguns, rifles, handguns, or pellet guns. My dad's rule was "Never point any gun at anything you don't want dead." Blunt, but it gets the point across to a kid.
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Yea I rememeber gettin shot in my Left Ear while playin hunting on the computer. Dangest story I tell ya. I was playing real hunter on the computer and right as I klled this munsterous buck, this dumb ***** whose name will remain untold shot me from like 2 feet away with an air rifle. To this day the pellet is still in there. Needless to say this dude got his arse wooped and well enough of that story but it sucks to this day. I remember going to Bryan Deathfield (whitfield) and getting bandaged up and everything. Man it sucked!!
Any body remember a show in the late 70's early 80's called either Time Voyagers, or Voyagers? The star of the show was playing with a BLANK gun that discharged against his temple and killed him. He was in his late 20's early 30's.....A gun is only as safe as the person behind the trigger...........
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk,
my first instinct is to laugh.
But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me.
Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
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