Indiana Father Teaching Sons Not to Play With Guns Shoots, Kills Daughter

By Jenn Jacques

This is the kind of story we should never have to cover. There is simply no excuse for this type of shooting EVER.

Shortly after 5 p.m. on June 10, 2017, a father in Indiana was showing his sons a 9MM handgun, instructing them not to play with it “because it can kill someone” when he pulled the trigger, killing his 9-year-old daughter Olivia who had just walked into the room where he was talking with his sons.

In the 911 call, 33-year-old Eric Hummel sobbed as he told the dispatcher, “This can’t be real,” the Post-Tribune reported.

“I had my gun, and I pulled the trigger. I didn’t realize there was a bullet in there, and I shot my daughter,” Hummel told the dispatcher.

The dispatcher instructed Hummel to perform CPR on his daughter until emergency responders arrived.

“She’s got blood, man, everywhere,” he replied.

Throughout the call, Hummel said over and over, “Oh my God.”

“What the (expletive) just happened?” Hummel said in disbelief.

The paper reported that he could be heard whispering, “Please don’t go.”

Olivia was shot in the left upper forehead from a distance of about 2 to 3 feet, an autopsy at the Lake County coroner’s office found, according to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms