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26 August 2013

Reuters

An 8-year-old boy from rural Louisiana shot and killed his elderly caregiver just minutes after he finished playing a violent video game, police have said. The child was released to his parents and has not been charged in the shooting on Thursday evening about 100 miles northwest of New Orleans in Slaughter, Louisiana, the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Department said. The circumstances surrounding the shooting of Marie Smothers remain under investigation, the... (GunPolicy.org)

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