10-year old boy found loaded gun in Idaho park and took it to school

A 10-year old boy, Jessie Abraham, found a loaded gun in a park in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and held onto it for a couple days in his backpack.  He was caught with the weapon at school.

From the article:

An Idaho Falls mom says her 10-year-old son was too afraid of police to turn in a gun he found at Central Park last Tuesday.

Jayme Abraham said her son Jessie instead kept the handgun in his backpack, until administrators at Dora Erikson Elementary found it on Thursday. Abraham said she was surprised to learn her 10-year-old had stashed the handgun he found in his backpack. She said she wants other parents and the community to know why." 

He doesn't trust the police," she said during an interview on Monday. "He's witnessed people be arrested, he's just afraid of them." 

Abraham said fear stopped Jessie from telling police he'd found the gun after school on Tuesday." 

I should have as a parent searched his backpack and questioned him further, but I didn't," she said. 

Abraham works as a pet groomer just a handful of blocks west of Central Park in Idaho Falls. Last week she said Jessie dropped his backpack at her shop after playing kickball with some friends in the park. She didn't know it, but he'd found a loaded handgun in a pine tree." 

I just want everybody to understand, the gun was loaded in the park, he unloaded it, he didn't know what else to do," said Abraham. "I think we need to inform our kids as parents and as the public." 

Jessie later told his mom he didn't feel comfortable leaving a gun in the park so he picked it up, unloaded it and put it in his bag. 

Abraham said her son was waiting to tell his dad about the gun. She said as a parent she wishes Jessie had known it was safe to tell someone else.

Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult.

16-year old Idaho boy shoots self in neck with friend's gun

A 16-year old boy, Andy Stroebel, had gone shooting with an adult friend in Fruitland, Idaho.  They went back to the friend's place to clean the guns, then the friend left to get a movie, leaving the boy with the guns, though the boy's mother was in the home at the time as well.  The boy then wound up shooting himself in the neck with one of the guns.  He is now in surgery in Portland, Oregon.


From the article:

Huff said Stroebel and an adult friend went shooting earlier in the day and were back at Stroebel’s house looking at his friends handgun. Huff said there were several unloaded guns in the house at the time, and the two had been cleaning them.

Huff said Stroebel’s friend left the area to get a movie, and the friend had taken the ammunition out of the gun, but at some point Stroebel put the ammunition back in.

“For some reason, he (Stroebel) put it up against his neck area and pulled the trigger,” Huff said. “The gun discharged and a round went through his neck.”

Stroebel’s mother was in the other room at the time the shot was fired. Stroebel was taken via Air Ambulance to a Boise-area hospital and then was flown to a Portland-area hospital.

Huff said the evidence indicates this was an accidental shooting.

Stroebel is a student at Fruitland High School.

Huff also wants to remind people with handguns or who may be around firearms that everybody needs to be trained and familiar with those guns.

“Treat them as if they are loaded,” Huff said.

Training is good, but keeping guns out of the hands of children is better.

Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult.

14-year old boy dies from accidental shooting in Idaho

A 14-year old boy, William Storm Rees, accidentally shot and killed himself while handling a loaded, unsecured gun in his grandfather's home in Teton, Idaho.

From the article:

The sheriff's office says William Storm Rees died Saturday in a shooting at his grandparents' home in Teton.

Authorities say emergency crews responded about 7:45 p.m. Saturday to a report of a boy being shot in the abdomen. Officials say Rees was handling the firearm while his grandfather was checking on something and the gun went off.

The boy was flown to the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls where he later died.

Police say the shooting appears accidental.

Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult.

12-year old Idaho boy shoots and kills his father

A 12-year old Swan Lake, Idaho boy has been arrested for the shooting death of his father.

From the article:

Deputies found the body of 46-year-old Paul Danielson. He was shot and killed inside the family's home.

They interviewed Danielson's 12-year-old son at the sheriff's office and during that interview, they took the boy into custody.
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"He is being held on a homicide charge," said Bannock County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Vic Pearson. "However, since we are so early in the investigation, we need to get to a few more of the facts before we determine what charges exactly are going to be appropriate. However, we are holding him in custody based upon the initial investigation our sheriff's detectives have completed." 

The sheriff said they have the weapon, but won't say what type of gun was used.

Another big question that the sheriff said he can't answer is why this happened or what the boy's motive might have been.

Every gun in the hands of a child must first pass through the hands of an adult.