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Man accused of shooting kids with pellet gun
Published Thursday, February 12, 2009
A Sargeant man has been charged with shooting his two children, ages 9 and 11, with an airsoft pellet gun.
According to the complaint, A Mower County sheriff’s deputy met with a Dodge County sheriff’s deputy on Jan. 6 to retrieve a report documenting child abuse involving a pellet gun.
On Jan. 20, a detective spoke on the phone with the defendant, who would not commit to a time or place to meet with the detective, and asked if his ex-wife reported the alleged incident. He said that he shot one child in the stomach and the other in the chest because he was teaching them that “guns should not be pointed at people.” Records show he claimed his children wanted to know how it felt to be shot.
Both children said it hurt. The defendant, age 40, told officers he shot with hard plastic pellets, which travel at 220 to 325 feet per second, and said they “can put somebody’s eye out easily.”
He told the detective that “sometimes the only way you learn is through the school of hard knocks,” and claimed his father did the same thing to him.
The defendant turned over two guns to the Law Enforcement Center in Austin.
He is charged with two counts of felony second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon; two counts gross misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child; and two counts of misdemeanor domestic assault.
The defendant, who has not been named to protect the identities of the children, has been summoned to appear in Mower County District Court on March 9. Both victims are residents of Dodge County.
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Posted by astates (anonymous) on February 12, 2009 at 12:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
how stupid is this guy? honestlty?! shooting your kids with a pellet gun? to teach them not to shoot someone? kids do not need to be shot at to teach them not to point guns at people. what a dumb@$$
Posted by scottb (anonymous) on February 12, 2009 at 12:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
School of hard knocks huh? I'm only guessing, but I bet that's the only school this guy learned from. He obviously didn't learn much through the "traditional" school system.
You know...things like DON'T SHOOT ANYTHING AT ANYBODY!!!!!
Posted by metisman (anonymous) on February 12, 2009 at 12:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Was this guy sober? What an idiot.
Posted by ALYLESTUD (anonymous) on February 12, 2009 at 3:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Does he have an eye patch?
Posted by petakillsanimals (anonymous) on February 12, 2009 at 5:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sounds like a ex-wife problem. My boys have shot me in paintball wars and airsoft war. I inturn have shot them hundreds of times. And I recall when we got the guns for each sport we shot each other to get over the wonder of what it felt like.
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