[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I don't like the headline the reporter gave this story! When I read "shoots to death" it appears to me to be done purposely......this was an accidental shooting - and the headline should have said so!!

[Robert_Paulson2]

Actually news this evening is that it may NOT have been and accident at all. There is going to be an autopsy to determine that... the boy was thirteen or older... fwiw... that's what we are getting now at the top of the hour reports...

The gun was reportedly, on a very high shelf, beyond the reach of the older kid... and it is being implied that he had to use something rather quickly in order to remove it from it's "safe" place, in mom and dad's bedroom, which is apparently suspicious to investigators...

The parents left them alone but for a few moments according to the radio station announcer... so the boy would have had to gone for the gun in a shorter period of time.... but that is just newsroom headline scuttlebut.

Sometimes kids of cops, like preachers kids, flip out for no apparent reason... One thing is for sure this whole story will be distorted every which way before the truth finally comes out.

Crazy times we live in.
Terrorists are our "friends" and allies.
Islam is PEACE.

And folks who KNOW better are doing the craziest things.

[ex-Texan]

Agree with you 199%! But this is the Oregonian and we have to live with that lousy newspaper. Once in a while, one of their reporters actually does a really great piece of reporting. Most of the time, the paper is just reprints Washington Post and NYT stories on front page. In my private view, the political reporters are way too cose to Vera Katz.

By the way, the Oregonian's web site is the worse site for a major metropolitan newspaper I have ever seen. Mainly, it is a site for the presentation of advertising and to access movie times in local theaters.