Kalamazoo Teen Kills Friend Playing With Gun, Then Commits Suicide

By Bob Owens

Few things frustrate me more than negligent discharge deaths.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a idiot who blasts himself in the head taking a “selfie,” a parent who allows a child to acquire an unsecured gun, or someone who shot another person or themselves while attempting to clean an “unloaded” gun that clearly wasn’t.

The most infuriating cases (for me at least) are those instances where the people involved are old enough to know better, but still act recklessly, playing with a firearm. That’s precisely what happened Monday night in an alley in Kalamazoo, MI.

In this instance two families were ripped apart, as the teen who was playing with the gun and killed his friend then turned the gun on himself.

A “distraught” teenager in southwestern Michigan killed himself after fatally shooting another teen while playing with a gun, police said Tuesday.

The two shootings occurred Monday night in an alley in Kalamazoo. Police said a witness reported no argument or altercation between the 17-year-olds, who knew each other.

“Once the first person was shot and died at the scene, the shooter became distraught, according to the witness, and then took his own life. The evidence found at the scene confirms this,” Capt. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms