Amish girl Rachel Yoder, 15, shot dead on way home from Christmas party

It sure looks to me like the shooter should be charged with involuntary manslaughter, since the guy irresponsibly shoots a gun into the air. That lead ball had to come down somewhere and he knew it but did not consider any consequences. Now a precious 15 yo daughter is gone and a family and friends grieve.

I don't know much about guns, but an "accident" is what happens when everyone is doing things in a way that is known to be safe. An "incident", on the other hand, is what happens when people do reckless things without intent to harm anyone.

I'm sure the shooter is sorry, but I think there should be some repercussion for shooting a little girl who was just minding her own business.

Pray for the grieving families....

No charges filed?
How about negligent manslaughter. Reckless Endangerment. Discharge of a weapon within 100 feet of a dwelling or road.
Didn't the gun owner know the laws of gravity, that if you shoot it in the air, the projectile must eventually come back down to earth? If you want to clear the chamber, then shoot at the side of your barn or into a dirt embankment.

We know the family of this poor girl won't do anything, it's not in their nature. So someone should sue him on their behalf. Make him pay for funeral and burial, and some kind of damages.

Umm... hunter safety 101: NEVER discharge a weapon by pointing it skyward! My 10-year-old knows this much.

By the way... who else thinks this reckless person has been doing this for years -- shooting his gun into the air -- and this is just the first time we found out about it?

a mom wrote:

I don't know much about guns, but an "accident" is what happens when everyone is doing things in a way that is known to be safe.

There's no such thing as an accident, only negligent acts.

Chung Ki Phat Boi wrote:

No charges filed?
How about negligent manslaughter. Reckless Endangerment. Discharge of a weapon within 100 feet of a dwelling or road.

Grass Hopper, he who talks without knowing facts is a quacker. LOL.

The article states the man was at least a mile a way from the girl when he fired the gun up in the air. If you want to provide ballistic tables to prove that could not be so, that would be fine...however, where in the hell did you get the idea that that man was "WITHIN 1OO FEET OF A...ROAD"? Either you didn't read the article or you were with the shooter when the gun was fired.

Hey Dick
You lack comprehension it says "dwelling OR road".
I doubt the idiot decided to clean his gun in the middle of a field far from his home in the dark. He was most likely on his back porch. Too bad he wasn't looking down the barrel instead to see if it was still loaded while cleaning it.

I once accidentally discharged a muzzle loading
rifle at a about a 45 degree angle while bringing
it down to draw a bead on the target. I was pulling
the hammer into the cocked position at the time
and my thumb slipped. The bullet went flying off
to who knows where. I was very upset when that
happened. A few years earlier a bullet hit a phone
booth where I was making a call. It hit the road
and bounced up into the booth and just missed me.
I found the bullet and could tell by the way it
was deformed that it had hit at about 30 degrees
from the horizontal and so had come from a very
long way away. We can never be too careful when
using firearms.

Chung Ki Phat Boi wrote:

Hey Dick
You lack comprehension it says "dwelling OR road".
I doubt the idiot decided to clean his gun in the middle of a field far from his home in the dark. He was most likely on his back porch. Too bad he wasn't looking down the barrel instead to see if it was still loaded while cleaning it.

The Amish girl wasn't in a dwelling, a person may discharge their firearm near their own house all they want.

2923.161 There's the Ohio code for discharging of a firearm, nothing in there stipulates that a homeowner cannot allow the shooting of a firearm near their own home.

2923.162 Discharge of firearm on or near prohibited premises, State of Ohio.

(2) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, discharge a firearm on a lawn, park, pleasure ground, orchard, or other ground appurtenant to a schoolhouse, church, or inhabited dwelling, the property of another, or a charitable institution;

(3) Discharge a firearm upon or over a public road or highway.

(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises. A violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. A violation of division (A)(3) of this section shall be punished as follows:

(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2),(3), or (4) of this section, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(3) or (4) of this section, if the violation created a substantial risk of physical harm to any person or caused serious physical harm to property, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a felony of the third degree.

(3) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(4) of this section, if the violation caused physical harm to any person, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a felony of the second degree.

(4) If the violation caused serious physical harm to any person, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a felony of the first degree.

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Yeah, I guess technically the bullet didn't cross all the way on the roadway since it hit the girl in the head and she was on the road, thus preventing it from completely crossing the road.

Chung Ki Phat Boi wrote:

2923.162 Discharge of firearm on or near prohibited premises, State of Ohio.
(2) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, discharge a firearm on a lawn, park, pleasure ground, orchard, or other ground appurtenant to a schoolhouse, church, or inhabited dwelling, the property of another, or a charitable institution;
(3) Discharge a firearm upon or over a public road or highway.
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises. A violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. A violation of division (A)(3) of this section shall be punished as follows:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2),(3), or (4) of this section, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(3) or (4) of this section, if the violation created a substantial risk of physical harm to any person or caused serious physical harm to property, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a felony of the third degree.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(4) of this section, if the violation caused physical harm to any person, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a felony of the second degree.
(4) If the violation caused serious physical harm to any person, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a felony of the first degree.
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Yeah, I guess technically the bullet didn't cross all the way on the roadway since it hit the girl in the head and she was on the road, thus preventing it from completely crossing the road.

Yeah, I guess your lying commie ass edited out relevant sections of the law thinking someone wouldn't read that you edited out the exclusion (b 2) which states

2923.162 Discharge of firearm on or near prohibited premises.

(A)(2) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, discharge a firearm on a lawn, park, pleasure ground, orchard, or other ground appurtenant to a schoolhouse, church, or inhabited dwelling, the property of another, or a charitable institution;

(B)(2) Division (A)(2) of this section does not apply to a person who owns any type of property described in that division and who, while on the person’s own enclosure, discharges a firearm.

I guess you have trouble with :

(2) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(3) or (4) of this section, if the violation created a substantial risk of physical harm to any person or caused serious physical harm to property, a violation of division (A)(3) of this section is a felony of the third degree.

The girl DIED from a gunshot that travelled over a public road - THAT is the Physical Harm to any person part -
DOOSHBAG

go clean your Uzi looking down the barrel while still loaded

I guess you have trouble with, "NO CHARGES FILED" mofo. LOL

no charges filed YET, give it time. Some advocate for the family will press it forward