Friday, July 06, 2012

Local Tragedy

There's been a horrible tragic accident in my community the last 24-hours. A teenager found a hand-gun belonging to his grandparents and shot and killed his best friend Noah by accident. The grandmother was out shopping at the time. Both boys were by all accounts great young men, loved by many and both were on their school baseball team. A woman we know has a son that also played with them a lot (in fact both boys were at her house the night before the accident), so she is obviously upset. It very easily could have been her son there too. It's such a tragic event and I can't even begin to imagine what Noah's parents are going through tonight.  I'm hoping they won't charge the boy who did it. He is devastated and will have to live with it the rest of his life. He's only 14. I have no idea what will happen to the grandparents though.

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