Tragic Shooting In Milwaukee Shows Need For Education, Not Gun Control

By Cam Edwards

This is such a tragic story A young woman named Kiara Brown was killed by her boyfriend in what he says was accidental shooting that, if true, involved a great deal of both negligence and ignorance.

Marvin Patterson says he bought a gun for protection against street violence, but as happens all too often, it inflicted more violence instead.

Kiara Brown, a senior at Vincent High School, had dated Patterson, 20, off and on for years. In March 2018, he picked her up to show her the Audi he purchased after saving money from his two jobs.

As they drove, he says, she asked about the gun, which he had mentioned days earlier. Patterson says he took it from the glove box and put it in the cupholder. Brown then picked it up and was trying to take a photo when, Patterson says, he tried to grab it away and it went off. Kiara, 18, died instantly from a single gunshot to her head.

Patterson was in court this week and pleaded down to a charge of homicide by reckless discharge of a firearm. He was sentenced to the maximum term of five years in prison, in part because the judge …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms