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Roxbury MA Homicide Of Child Re-lived In Gun Trial Against Mother.

By Altman & Altman

One thing that you get enough of as a Boston criminal lawyer is human drama. An example is the 10-year-old boy who accidentally fatally shot his cousin in 2007 in Roxbury. He has now testified at the trial of the boy's mother, who is now facing an involuntary manslaughter charge for not properly storing the gun used in the shooting. At the time of the incident, he was 7 years old. The boy began his testimony with smiles...but that soon changed as he recalled the day at issue. He recounted that he had been watching TV with Liquarry J., 8, (hereinafter, the ?Deceased?) when the Deceased showed him the gun that he said belonged to his teenaged half-brother . "I asked him if there were bullets in the gun. He said, 'No,'" the boy said. "I did it by accident," he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).