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8yr-old West Virginia Boy Shoots His Mother Dead While Cleaning His Gun
23 February 2011
Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia)
State Police say a Fayette County woman was killed when the firearm her eight-year-old son was cleaning went off.
Sgt. Michael Baylous, spokesman for the State Police, said Jennifer Bailes, 29, was shot and killed Tuesday morning at her home in Hico, which is just outside of Anstead.
The little boy had been cleaning a firearm near Bailes when it discharged, troopers said. Troopers would not specify what type of weapon it was.
Baylous said the incident is being... (GunPolicy.org)