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Amish girl shot in head by man cleaning rifle

 

The shooting death of a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a horse-drawn buggy was caused by a man who accidentally shot his rifle into the air while cleaning it two kilometres away, US police say.

 

Rachel Yoder was shot in the head on Thursday night while travelling to her home in Fredericksburg, Ohio.

 

She had attended a Christmas party for employees at an Amish produce farm and was riding home alone when she was shot, police Captain Douglas Hunter said on Tuesday.

 

Holmes County Sheriff Timothy Zimmerly said the gun-cleaner's family came forward and his neighbours reported hearing a shot about the time the girl was wounded.

 

The man had fired the muzzle-loading rifle in the air two kilometres from where Yoder was shot, Zimmerly said.

 

State investigators were checking the rifle for a ballistics match, he said.

 

"In all probability, it looks like an accidental shooting," Zimmerly said.

 

No charges have been filed.

 

The horse continued to cart the girl after she was shot, and she fell out of the buggy near her home.

 

Her brother found her after he saw the horse walking in circles and went to check it.

 

Authorities initially believed she had fallen out of the buggy and hit her head until a hospital test revealed the gunshot wound.

 

Hunter said his department traced a trail of blood along the road in an area of farms and rolling hills.

 

AP

 

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/amish-girl-shot-in-head-by-man-cleaning-rifle-20111221-1p4oq.html#ixzz1h8njpADm

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1) A ballistics test can easily show if the bullet came from the weapon, or at least was the same calibre.

 

2) Cleaning a weapon does not mean firing it into the air! It means unloiading the weapon - in the case of a muzzle loader by using a "screw" attached to the ramrod to draw the projectile. Also, one fires weapons into the ground, not into the air.

 

3) Yes, bullets can be lethal at that range, though it is unusual.

 

I am not convinced this is what happened.

 

 

 

 

 

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1) A ballistics test can easily show if the bullet came from the weapon, or at least was the same calibre.

 

2) Cleaning a weapon does not mean firing it into the air! It means unloiading the weapon - in the case of a muzzle loader by using a "screw" attached to the ramrod to draw the projectile. Also, one fires weapons into the ground, not into the air.

 

3) Yes, bullets can be lethal at that range, though it is unusual.

 

I am not convinced this is what happened.

 

 

 

If this had happened in LOS, the girls would probably been handcuffed and it would have been ruled as suicide. doah.gif

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Strange shot or was it a lucky shot?

 

The Amish have been having their own problems.....

I'd like to think that they would consider several alternative options in between cutting someone's beard off and shooting his daughter in the head though.

But then we are talking about the US here.....

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