4-Year-Old Shot Dead By Neighbor While Fishing: Family Friend Calls the Shooting a ‘Freak Accident’
- Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:05pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Tragedy has struck Indiana for the fourth time this month. An Indiana sheriff says a 4-year-old boy was fatally shot in the head by an errant bullet while out fishing with his father.
Wells County Sheriff Monte Fisher told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jacob “Jake” Michuda was shot in the head late Friday night while he and his father were fishing from a pier at a pond outside Ossian.
Forty-six-year-old neighbor Bruce Pond is being held on a preliminary charge of reckless homicide and is due to appear in court Monday.
Family friend Trisha Ulmer tells The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne the shooting was a “freak accident.”
Fisher tells the Bluffton News-Banner alcohol was involved and that Pond apparently shot at a light on the pier where the father and son were fishing.
The incident is the fourth fatal shooting of an Indiana child in less than a month. A 4-year-old Cedar Lake boy died Thursday after accidentally shooting himself, a 2-year-old Connersville boy died July 14 after accidentally being shot by his 5-year-old brother, and a 6-year-old Martinsville boy died June 30 after being shot by his 11-year-old brother.
According to the Goodwin Memorial Chapel website, Jacob would have turned 5 next month, on Aug. 24.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (59)
jungle J
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 8:54pmhey fatsam..who are you to try to defend God? He can take care of himself..defend the widow and the orphan like he told you to.try being a Christian.
Report Post »Patriot Rider
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 8:37pmAccidents happen when someone does something stupid.
Report Post »There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. Ted Nugent
tarbush
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 11:38pmAll guns are always loaded
Report Post »Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy
Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target
Always be sure of your target and what is beyond it
Maji
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 8:09pmForget the “gun” jail this idiot!!!
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 7:55pmThose dang evil guns….‘we’ll get em yet” I’m sure the leftists reading this are saying. It’s the blame game, blame blame blame blame…It’s as if in a country with 400 million people accidents and odd incidents never occur. But it’s OK to arm MS13 with 10 million dollars worth of weapons and wait for the bodybags to pile up.
Could you imagine the worldwide uproar if the Bush administration did such a crazy thing? Headline after headline after protest after protest and effigies burning and it would be endless liberal calls for this head and that head but to them this is counts less on their radar screens than basically a suicide by a lifelong British smack junkie and 5 people listening to idiots voicemails who never changed their default passcodes.
It’s almost enough madness to make you quietly pray for a peaceful while sleeping death on some days until you gather yourself and say “these nuts aren’t shaking my tree bare”.
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 7:55pmResponsible gun ownership is important. As a young person we were given gun safety classes in High school the boys and girls always brought guns to school on the back window of their pick up truck. The trucks were never locked, What is the difference between now and then? Stupidity and lack of respect has become the norm.
Report Post »JIMAT
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:31pmHas anyone noticed the violence on TV these days
So many of today’s youth see TV and think because they see it, “hey, this is the way I’m expected to act”
Sorry about that folks, life is real, TV is educational and entertaining.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:25pmthere are just too many burnouts and mentally ill people in America.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:24pmpundit – Not funny. Shame on you.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:21pmOh this is such a heart breaker. This little one’s family will never recover from this. God Bless them.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:13pmYesterday was a sad day with so many shootings, kids parties, roller skating rink, car shows, etc: http://url2it.com/gcdd
Norway was just the beginning.
Report Post »The Spirit Of Truth
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:19pmMaybe there’s too many guns in America.
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 9:29pm@Spirit of Truth:
It is not too many Guns. Because if you take the gun away from the Human and lay it on the ground it can not kill on its own, it is like a log or a stick unless the Human picks up the stick or the gun it has no way to move point or shoot.
But you need to blame the Human for drinking and trying to shoot a dangerous weapon, even though he believed that the pier was deserted his recklessness will live on for the rest of his life and the boys family that was killed by his actions.
Only God and his Spirit can heal these wounds and some day that will happen. I pray for all involved since this was a Stupid and Senseless way to end a life.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:00pmOur country is in trouble when we must mix politics with the grief of a little boy and their family.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:25pmHow Horrible…..The dad had his child out fishing and enjoying their time together and some Drunk fool shoots a gun. I cannot even begin to imagine what this family is going thru. My prayers are with them in this time of need. What a horrible thing to happen.
It said 4 had been killed recently, I have my guns and believe in the 2nd amendment. But people who leave loaded guns where children or anyone for that matter can get their hands on them do not deserve the right to bear arms.They forfeited that right.The other children killed were killed while playing with loaded guns. OMG
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:53pmThe tragedy here is for a family that lost a cute kid just beginning life. No words will suffice… I can’t imagine that grief. my most sincer condolences for the loss of Jake.
Report Post »The stupid is one drunken Billy Bob gettin’ liquored up and playing with a deadly weapon. You’re an @$$ and deserve to do some time.
The shameless are the activists who will use this tragedy to generalize and assert ALL guns must go… as they know what’s best.
As long as man walks the earth, bad things will happen to good people. That’s not trite, it’s true. We know the source of the bad thing in this instance: Bruce Pond. Punish him, not the entire population.
SHASTADIANE1
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 8:38pmYeah, besides as they say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. Drunken people with guns sure don’t help. We believe in our 2nd Ammendment rights, and we have loaded guns, but we didn’t when we had little ones around. All our kids and grandkids have had hunter safety, and have been taught since a young age that guns are NOT TOYS and should never be used as such. My 13 year old grandson got his limit in deer last year, but he hunted with an adult and was instructed all the way on how to handle his rifle, his bow and his muzzle loader. I too, feel terrible for this innocent child and I pray for his grief stricken family who will never get over this loss. I think how I would feel if it were one of mine. My son and grandson are always out fishing and even very careful people can get injured while hunting or shooting around water. One of my cousins was permanently blinded in one eye by a buckshot that richocheted off their pond when the boys were shooting at snakes in the pond. You can never be to careful.
Report Post »brknhrt
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:09amUnfortunately, it is not only the drunken billybobs. Our neighbor and his children shoot in their yard all the time (less than one acre of land). When I reminded him that on the other side of his shooting range about 60 feet away was a child’s play yard, I was the busybody neighbor. He claimed it was his yard and he could do what he wanted. Such a good Smithian neighbor.
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:41pmUse a child dying to make cheap political points, you are worse than a fool.
Report Post »Gnostyk
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:40pmLeave guns alone when you’re drinking, you stupid azzclown!
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:34pmThe FOURTH fatal shooting in less than a month??? WTF? I agree with Johnsell, something ain’t right.
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:48pm“IF WE CANT BEAT THEM BY POWER OF PERSUASION….THAN WE WILL TAKE THEM BY PERSUASION OF POWER”………“BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY”
Project Gun Runner BACKFIRED….so lets just start shooting people indiscriminatley TO GET THE LAW (2nd Amendment) CHANGED! Until the American people say “PLEASE Government…STOP the random shootings of little children!”
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:59pmSemihardrock, you are saying the government shot this child? No sorry a drunk moron who should have never had a gun shot this child. I hope you realize how insane you sound.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 9:19pmIt’s the heat. Just paint your roof white, stay indoors, drink all you want, let ACORN cast your absentee vote and watch sports all day. The socialist will take care of the rest.
Report Post »Don’t drink and drive. Don’t drink and shoot guns. Don’t drink and argue. Don’t drink and vote.
123gone
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:34pmLets hope that this time they lay the blame where it belongs. The neighbor was negligent and had no business handling a firearm or any other object that could hurt someone.
The gun, just like a car requires a responsible person to operate it; by itself, it does not kill anything.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:56pmTrue but lets face it they are frickin idiots and they are all brainwashed ………
Report Post »101
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:59pmShooting drunk [illegal] shooting at night [illegal]shooting at a light on a pier[illegal] within a mile of a pond/lake[illegal] causing an “accidental” death [trial by twelve will decide his fate]
What an awful unnecessary loss of a young boys life, I cannot even imagine the grief & emotions this family is having to going thru.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 7:35pmBan cars, ban razors ban fans ban t.v. ban trees ban rocks ban boats. Its NOT the gun, it the drunk with his finger on the triger! O’ yea ban booze too!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:30pmWhat a sweetheart. Why don;t you join him then, if he’s that much better off?
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:28pmGoddam, I’m NRA and I own some hardware and I believe in the 2nd as much as the 1st, but dammit, something just aint right. As conservatives we often talk about responsibilities being packaged up with rights in a lot of other contexts. Can’t we do something to keep firearms out of the hands of the terminally stupid? Make sure Gomer knows how to unload a gun and check it’s clear before cleaning it? Because if we don’t start doing a little bit more in the way of self-governance, you know Nanny is going to come in and take >everything< away.
Report Post »dsm
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 6:41pmThat is my fear. You know damn well the anti-gun lunatics are eating this up and are going to run wild with it. Guns don’t kill people. Stupid people kill people.
Report Post »Fastsam
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 7:28pmLearn how to start a post without using God’s name in vain and I might read the rest, other than that you are no better than the drunken fool who killed the little boy
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:26pmThese stories are heartbreaking….. God will look after him and keep him safe forever.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:54pmTotally heartbreaking. Even full-justice served will not bring the boy back. Terrible for the family.
Report Post »johnsell
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:16pmThere’s more to this story….. You can’t fix STUPID!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:25pmEspecially when they are drinking.
Report Post »Throwback70
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:16pmWhat a nightmare, an accident I’m sure… But there would have been two deaths that night.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:15pmGod be with this family.
Report Post »cripplecreek
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:14pmDoesn’t sound like a freak accident to me. It sounds like terminal stupidity.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:19pmI wish people would learn that guns and alcohol don’t mix!
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:57pmYeah this is clearly not the definition of a freak accident.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:10pmThis is very sad.I hope all the family recovers . I’m sure Liberals will consider the child a 4yr old late abortion,just to deal with it
Report Post »ginsberg
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:42pmYou fool.
Report Post »Al Gator
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 7:10pmHey, ginzberger,
******** think that all abortions are just plain “cool.” Millions and millions served with a smile, by the way.
The only reason they will get their panties in a bunch here is because they think they can score political “points” in their effort to disarm everybody but themselves. They could care less about a 4 year old. After all, he would have grown up to be a drain on their system. /s>
Bikerr has a point, but should have used the /s> disclaimer.
Report Post »LambdaCore
Posted on July 24, 2011 at 5:09pmKeep your guns out of the hands of children and drunks.
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