Police are likely to press charges against the owner of a shotgun after a 10-year-old got hold of it and shot a teenage boy dead.
Michael Justin Voth died at around 7 p.m. on June 16 when the little boy, who hasn’t been named, accidentally discharged the shotgun, which had been left loaded and unsecured in the house.
First responders from the Jaffray Fire Department and B.C.
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