Police Arrest Man Whose Loaded Shotgun Accidentally Killed 7-Month-Old
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The Rome, NY man was cleaning his gun when it went off killing the baby.
Rome police say 18-year-old Henry Bartle faces a charge of criminally negligent homicide. He was arrested early Sunday.
Authorities say Bartle was in his apartment on Saturday with his girlfriend, who’s the baby’s mother, and another man, and was cleaning the 12-gauge shotgun in the living room. Police say he then loaded the gun and had it in his lap pointing in the direction of the child.
The baby was struck in the upper body when the gun went off.
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.