Father shows sons guns “can kill” by shooting daughter
A man from Hobart, Indiana, has been charged with five felonies after his 9-year-old daughter was shot and killed as he has teaching his kids not to play with guns.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot at about 5 p.m Saturday, according to Hobart police. They found Olivia Hummel lying unresponsive with a gunshot wound to her head in the bedroom of the home. Eric Hummel, her father, was kneeling next to her.
A police officer found no pulse and attempted chest compressions before Olivia was taken to St. Mary Medical Center, where she died at 5:25 p.m, as CBS reports. The autopsy performed on Saturday didn’t offer any conclusion to the cause and manner of her death.
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Before the gun went off, Hummel had told his sons not to play with the gun, as it can kill. The gun was unloaded when he showed it to his sons. He proceeded to load it after, but forgot he’d done so. Hummel told the two boys to “never use a gun” and “this is why” before pointing it at his daughter, who had just walked in the room, and shooting her in the head.
The kids told the officers that their father had pointed the gun at them and pulled the trigger at each before eventually loading it.
Eric Hummel is now facing charges of reckless homicide, neglect of a dependent resulting in death, batter resulting in death to a person less than 14 years old and two counts of neglect of a dependent.
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