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Licensed US Gun Owner and Wife Clean Guns: Daughter, 6, Shot Dead
18 November 2008
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
MARYSVILLE — A 42-year-old man told police that he accidentally shot and killed his 6-year- old daughter Sunday after drinking double vodkas while cleaning guns.
Stormy Peters was shot in the head and died after being flown to Seattle Children's hospital.
Her father, Richard D. Peters, was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree manslaughter, a felony. Monday afternoon, a judge ordered him held on $250,000 bail.
Police say Peters... (GunPolicy.org)