11 year old ,Langley Rudisell IV, shot and killed by his 12 yr old uncle

[thebooblady]

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ST. MATTHEWS, S.C. (WLTX, AP) -- Authorities say a 12-year-old South Carolina boy killed his 11-year-old nephew by shooting him in the head with a shotgun during an argument in their rural home.
Calhoun County Coroner Donnie Porth says Langley Rudisell IV was pronounced dead at a Columbia hospital about 10:15 p.m. Sunday, more than an hour after his 12-year-old uncle pointed a shot gun at him and fired a single bullet.



Sheriff Thomas Summers said he expects to decide Tuesday whether to file any charges. He said he does not foresee any charges against the victims' grandparents, who had custody of Rudisell and were home at the time.
Summers said the two were being raised together.


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Sheriff Thomas Summers with the Calhoun County Sheriff's Department says the 11-year-old was shot and killed by a 12-year-old family member while the two were horse-playing with a shotgun around 9pm Sunday at a home on Old SC-6 Highway.

Summers says the two parents were getting the boys ready for a bath before bedtime when the incident occurred.



Horesplay with a shotgun? Shakes my head.....

[Peeperann]

Horesplay with a shotgun? Shakes my head.....

Are they sure it was "horse play"? Because in the first quote it said during an argument.

Either way, this is so sad and tragic. Why do children have such easy access to guns? And was it loaded or did he have to load it?

[Earth2Amanda]

Family arguments like this seem to go younger and younger these days. Oh to be 12 again arguing with my family. I think I would just pull some hair and maybe say a curse word, while the rest of the family would gasp that I knew such a word!

And isn't there a thing called keeping your gun put where where your children can't get to it???

[runecire]

These kids never should have had access to firearms. Airsoft, BB, and paintball guns can be hazardous enough, but to let them play, unsupervised (I assume) with loaded firearms- should never have happened.

Kids, in general, have no comprehension of the permancy of death or the long term consequences of such actions. To keep weapons locked up not only saves the victims, it also saves the aggressors (from themselves).

I have always been of the belief that Everything Happens For A Reason. Sometimes I just can't fathom the reasons. This seems pointless.

Rest in peace, Little Angel.

[thebooblady]

Family arguments like this seem to go younger and younger these days. Oh to be 12 again arguing with my family. I think I would just pull some hair and maybe say a curse word, while the rest of the family would gasp that I knew such a word!

And isn't there a thing called keeping your gun put where where your children can't get to it???

This is SC. The gun could have been the kids.

[Peeperann]

This is SC. The gun could have been the kids.

Too true. In southern Kentucky most boys get them for their 10th birthdays.

[Earth2Amanda]

didn't think about that

[Harley_Tech]

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[wild_angel_1980]

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12-year-old charged with murder in 11-year-old's death

Posted: Apr 14, 2009 12:25 PM EDT Tuesday, April 14, 2009 12:25 PM EST
Updated: Apr 14, 2009 5:35 PM EDT CALHOUN COUNTY, SC (WIS) - Officials with the Calhoun County Sheriff's Department say a 12-year-old has been charged with murder in connection with the death of an 11-year-old family member.
Sheriff Thomas Summers says the 12-year-old has been charged in the case where 11-year-old Langley Emerson "Jason" Rudisell, IV was killed by a shotgun blast to the head around 9pm Sunday at a home on Old SC-6 Highway.
According to the police report, the 12-year-old boy was sitting up stairs with Jason, who was his nephew. The two were being raised as brothers by the 12-year-old's parents. But at some point this past Sunday, Jason ended up being shot.
Summers says the two parents were getting the boys ready for a bath before bedtime when the incident occurred.
"When I asked him about pulling the trigger, he said, 'It was just like a dream. I don't remember pulling the trigger. It was like a dream,'" said Summers.
Police say the 12-year-old realized it was no dream as he saw Jason laying on the floor.
The sheriff says the boy will not be charged as an adult.
"It appears as though it was not an accident, but I'm still not sure just how much the 12-year-old still understands about exactly what he did," said Summers.
Summers says this was the only trouble from the two boys. Both are enrolled at Orangeburg Christian Academy. School officials declined to comment on camera, but did say the two are very loved members of the school community.
The 12-year-old, whose name police have yet to release, is on house arrest. He'll later be tried in family court.
And for Summers, who's spent much of his career in St. Matthews, there's nothing good that will come out of this incident that's caused so much hurt in this community.
"The child is going to be affected negatively, no matter what happens," said Summers.
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[runecire]

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Rest in Peace, Little Man. Your family will need you on their shoulders.

[wild_angel_1980]

Too true. In southern Kentucky most boys get them for their 10th birthdays.


Girls in my family got BB guns/ or pellet guns at the age of 5 and a .22 rifle at the age of 10. I had a .20 gauge shotgun by the age of 12 and I was the proud owner of a 12 gauge by the time I hit 15.

Then again after saying all of that. I was NOT allowed to use a firearm unsupervised. I had to be supervised by my mother or my father.

Myself and my two sisters were taught gun safety. We knew that guns were dangerous. We knew that we could be hurt or killed. (By the guns OR our parents!)

But beyond being hurt or killed we were SCARED of our parents. We were more scared of our parents than we were of death or dismemberment.

We KNEW that if we did something that they had explicitly told us NOT to do we were in for it. None of this grounding rigamaro.

We would get the crap beat out of us... Right or wrong we all made it to adulthood and I THANK my parents for making sure that I got this far...

[tonilj80]

Girls in my family got BB guns/ or pellet guns at the age of 5 and a .22 rifle at the age of 10. I had a .20 gauge shotgun by the age of 12 and I was the proud owner of a 12 gauge by the time I hit 15.

Then again after saying all of that. I was NOT allowed to use a firearm unsupervised. I had to be supervised by my mother or my father.

Myself and my two sisters were taught gun safety. We knew that guns were dangerous. We knew that we could be hurt or killed. (By the guns OR our parents!)

But beyond being hurt or killed we were SCARED of our parents. We were more scared of our parents than we were of death or dismemberment.

We KNEW that if we did something that they had explicitly told us NOT to do we were in for it. None of this grounding rigamaro.

We would get the crap beat out of us... Right or wrong we all made it to adulthood and I THANK my parents for making sure that I got this far...

I think we were raised by the same parents!

[Special2bme]

http://i359.photobucket.com/albums/oo35/Special2bme/090414123546_shotgunweb.jpghttp://i359.photobucket.com/albums/oo35/Special2bme/090414034048_childkilled.jpgST. MATTHEWS, S.C. (WLTX, AP) -- A 12-year-old boy is being charged with murder in the death of an 11-year-old boy at a home.

Sheriff Thomas Summers say investigators decided to file the charges after a hearing Tuesday morning. The child will not be charged as an adult, and the case will be heard in family court.

"I'm still not comfortable with him being charged, to be honest with you, but I don't know how we can show what this child intended to do," said Sheriff Summers.

The boy is also not being detained; instead, he'll be under house arrest

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Calhoun County Coroner Donnie Porth says Langley "Jason" Rudisell IV died at a Columbia hospital about 10:15 p.m. Sunday, more than an hour after his 12-year-old uncle pointed a shot gun at him and fired a single bullet.

Summers says the boys were 'horsing around' prior to the shooting.

"The little boy says he doesn't remember shooting. He says he does remember picking up the gun," Summers said.

Investigators say the shotgun used in the killing belonged to the 12-year-old. They say he used it for hunting, and had participated in the sport since he was four.

No adults are being charged in the shooting. Summers says he's determined that they were not negligent.

"Granted, the gun should have been stored in a better place, in a safer manner, but it wasn't. But here, it's not uncommon for young boys to have access to their guns," said Summers.

Summers says the boys were hunters, and each of them had taken certification courses.

"I think there's a lesson to be learned for everyone. First, firearm safety. Even though these children had passed the course, maybe they shouldn't have had access to that gun," said Summers.

"My reaction to this is very sad. It's unbelievable that a young child, 11-years-old, could lose his life in this manner," said Porth.

An autopsy Monday determined Rudisell died from the gunshot wound to his brain.

The incident occured at the home where the children were living on Old 6 Highway just outside of St. Matthews.

Rudisell's grandparents had custody of him and the grandfather was home at the time.

Summers said the two were being raised together.

The boys both attended Orangeburg Christian Academy. Jason had been a student there for almost a year. His principal, Ms. Cynthia Poor, says he was a wonderful student and well loved at the school.
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