Spring Valley

A Spring Valley man whose 6-year-old daughter died in an accidental shooting was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges that he possessed the illegal homemade gun that killed his daughter.

Robert Wayne Anderson, 34, was also indicted on three counts of possessing pipe bombs and possessing another unregistered gun, referred to as a “zip gun.”

Anderson will be arraigned Thursday. He is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Assistant U. S. Atty. Larry Burns said the government will seek a detention hearing in which Anderson could continue to be held without bail until trial.

On Oct. 10, Kristine Anderson died after she was accidentally shot in the head at her home on Sweetwater Road. The weapon was described in the indictment as homemade and unregistered.

Upon investigating the shooting, sheriff’s deputies found the pipe bombs in Anderson’s home. He was arrested Oct. 12, but was released on bail until his arrest Saturday by agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Paul Bledso, the Sheriff’s Department investigator in the arson unit who assisted in the arrest, said Tuesday he did not know why Anderson had pipe bombs in his home.

“Pipe bombs are used against persons and property,” Bledso said.

The indictment describes one pipe bomb that was attached to a one-gallon can of a flammable liquid. The two other bombs were made from copper pipe 5 inches long and 2 inches wide and had black gunpowder inside, the indictment stated.