Here come the “Guns don’t kill people…” emails and comments. The latest news: a 15 year old boy has been charged with shooting two adults and three children with a knife with a rifle in what investigators call a “horrific” crime scene. CNN:
Sheriff’s investigators combed through what one called a “horrific” crime scene Sunday after the shooting deaths of five people, three of them children, outside Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Each of victims had been shot multiple times, Bernalillo County sheriff’s Lt. Sid Covington, and one of the weapons used was what he described as an assault rifle. Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston said a 15-year-old boy, who “may be a family member,” has been charged with two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death.
“Initially responding deputies entered the home and found the five deceased inside the residence, so obviously it was a very gruesome scene,” Covington told reporters. There was no indication of a motive so far, he said.
“I’ve never seen a scene quite like this,” he added.
Investigators did not released the names of the victims Sunday afternoon, saying the process of formally identifying the remains was still going on. But they said the dead included a man, a woman and three grade-school-age children — two girls and a boy.
Houston said deputies were dispatched to the home, in a semi-rural area on the southwestern edge of Albuquerque, around 9:15 p.m. Saturday. They were summoned by “a party that was called by the suspect,” he said, but “I don’t know what the dynamics of that relationship is.”
And to put this into perspective, GO HERE to see graphics that hammer home just how many people have been killed with guns since Newtown. Oh: this isn’t updated so there are MORE than you’ll see in that graphic.
“But, Joe, guns don’t kill people…” Yeah, yeah, I know.
Tell it to the all the grieiving family members.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.