Girl, 8, shot during struggle with brother

[geronimotwo]

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/nation/story/511002.html

The Associated Press
Posted: Sunday, Feb. 01, 2009
ELYRIA, Ohio Authorities say an 8-year-old girl from northeast Ohio was shot in the head after struggling over a pistol with her 10-year-old brother.

Elyria Police Lt. A.D. Eichenlaub says that Najia Boone was critically wounded when the weapon went off Sunday. Eichenlaub says the siblings were struggling over the .22-caliber pistol in an upstairs bedroom of the family's Elyria home.

A nursing supervisor at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland says Boone was in critical condition on Sunday night.

Police say the child's brother had taken the weapon from a relative's home on Saturday.

i hope she'll be ok. this kind of stuff really bothers me since having kids.

i wonder if the "relative" will be in any legal trouble?

[AZRedhawk44]

Very sad.  I hope she pulls through, and that the 10 year old gets his awakening moment from this experience.

[Antibubba]

i wonder if the "relative" will be in any legal trouble?

I hope so.

[Standing Wolf]

i wonder if the "relative" will be in any legal trouble?

90 days, same as cash.