An Indiana man has been charged for fatally shooting his 9-year-old daughter in the head while teaching his two sons about gun safety.
On June 10, Eric Hummel, 33, from Hobart, Indiana, was telling his sons about the dangers of playing with guns when his daughter Olivia walked into the room, People, citing court documents, reports. Unaware that the gun was loaded, he said he pointed it toward her and fired.
Hummel has since been charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death, battery resulting in death to a person less than 14 years old, reckless homicide, and, in addition, two counts of neglect of a dependent, People reports. Hummel, who has entered a not guilty plea, faces 20 to 40 years on the neglect of a dependent resulting in death charge, which is a Level 1 felony, according to People.
"She’s dead, she’s dead. I thought it was empty, you can kill," Hummel told the police officer who arrived on the scene, according to a police report obtained by People.
"I was showing the boys the gun and told them not to ever play with it because it can kill someone, then she walked in in the room and I pointed it at her and pulled the trigger, thinking it was empty," he continued, according to People.
Now see, this guy is simply too stupid to have ever been allowed to own a gun.
Anybody who would point a gun at ANYBODY, much less a child, and pull the trigger does not know the first thing about gun safety.
Despite the pain this man feels at the loss of his little girl, he absolutely deserves to be convicted of every one of the charges against him.
And perhaps even more.
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