Nicholas King was a 14 year old boy. His family and him moved from Oshawa to Indianapolis when he was 5 years old. There, Nicholas met a fifteen year old boy (name can not be identified, due to him being a minor) and Kevin Edwards, 18. Him and Nicholas had bonded over video games, rap music and oddball humour.
A photo of Nicholas
Last October, the night before Halloween, Nicholas went over to his friends house around 8 pm. When Nicholas knocked on the door his friends thought it would be funny to surprise him with an assault rifle attack. Nicholas knocked on the door and as planned his friend took out the gun that Kevin had purchased and shot. To his friend, Kevin and certainly Nicholas's surprise a bullet came out and ripped through his neck.
Nicholas's family were devastated over the lost of their beloved son/brother. "I honestly wanted to believe that this is all a mistake, a big misunderstanding . . . But I’m not naive,” Tiffany King wrote. Tiffany and Nicholas were very close and it was heart wrenching for her to lose her younger brother.
A photo of Tiffany & Nicholas
The fifteen year old boy and Edwards explained it was all an accident and that they didn't know the rifle was loaded.
The fifteen year old boy has been sentenced to “indeterminate wardship” to the Indiana Department of Correction for reckless homicide.
Kevin Edwards was sentenced to four years in prison for dangerous control of a firearm.
In my own opinion I think gun stores and the United States should have stricter gun laws. The fact that a fifteen year old boy was able to get his hand on a gun, loaded or unloaded, is despicable.
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