Boy, 3, Kills Baby Sister
A 3-year-old boy shot his 18-month-old sister to death Friday with a high-powered rifle his parents owned for protection, authorities said.
Colleen Abatti was shot in the head with a .243-caliber Ruger that her mother had loaded and left in the living room after hearing noises outside the home Thursday night, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Deputy John Hastie said.
“The rifle was on the floor, and the boy was coming away from it holding his ears,” after the mother awoke to the sound of a gunshot and investigated, Hastie said.
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