7-Year-Old Shot and Killed at Mercer County Gun Store
By: Michael Holden
Updated: December 9, 2012
DECEMBER 9, 2012-A family
is in shock and a community is in disbelief after a 7-year-old boy was killed
in an accidental shooting in
Police
are still investigating.
But
according to initial reports, the boy was sitting inside his father's pickup
truck when the handgun went off fatally shooting him...
The
incident happened outside of Twigs Reloading Den, a camping and gun store in
Pennsylvania
State Police say 7-year-old Craig Allen Loughrey was with his 44-year-old
father Joseph Loughrey at the time.
When
Joseph loughrey and Craig returned to their pickup truck, Loughrey laid a 9 mm
gun on the console.
As
he got into the vehicle, the gun reportedly went off and hit the child as he
was sitting in a booster seat.
According
to police, the father believed the gun was unloaded at the time... The magazine
was unloaded; however there was still a bullet in the chamber of the gun.
Evidence at this point
suggests the shooting was an accident.
An
autopsy is expected sometime Monday.
