A 16-year-old boy shot and killed his friend with a shotgun after an argument over a paintball game, according to the Huffington Post.
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The victim, Dalton Williams, was found lying in the entryway of the accused shooter’s house in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but he died later.
Another boy, a 16-year-old witness, tells police that the two boys were playfully wrestling in the shooter’s house. He told detectives that they started arguing about the paintball-gun game and the shooter retrieved a semi-automatic shotgun from somewhere in the house. The shooter walked into the kitchen and pointed it at the witness.
The witness said he heard the gun click, then saw the accused shooter take a shotgun shell from a drawer, load the gun and point it at him again. The witness said he then heard another click, according to the affidavit.
The witness told police he was trying to leave the house through a sliding glass door when Williams stepped in between him and the accused shooter. The witness told detectives that the gun fired and he observed a splatter, according to the affidavit.
The witness then left the house and called 911. The shooter was later arrested at the home on a first-degree murder charge.
The local prosecutor said the teen is being charged as an adult. He has not yet been arraigned or indicted, so The Associated Press is withholding his name because he is a minor. His attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message.
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Paintball guns to shotguns. And another youth killed, this time stepping in to save a friend. We’re really looking forward to Obama’s gun-task proposals this upcoming January.
SOURCE: Huffington Post
