8-Year-Old Brings Father's Gun to Day Care, Shoots Classmate

Ernesto Londono
The Washington Post
New York Sun
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Washington (US):
An 8-year-old boy who shot a 7-year-old girl in the arm yesterday with a handgun he sneaked into a Germantown, Md., day care center in his backpack told classmates last Friday after a fight that he had easy access to guns, two law enforcement officials said.
The boy, a third-grader, had been suspended in the past for bringing a toy weapon to school, said the sources.
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He was armed yesterday with a .38-caliber Taurus revolver that belonged to his father, a felon with a lengthy record, police said. It was unclear what the boy had planned to do with his father's gun, they said.
The sources said the boy threatened to rob the girl and then shot the gun once, striking her in the upper right arm.The boy's father, John Linwood Hall, 56, was arrested and charged with leaving a firearm within reach of an unsupervised minor.
His son, was charged as a juvenile with numerous counts that police declined to outline yesterday. The boy was placed in the custody of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. Jan 25, 2006