A 6-year-old shoots someone. Who’s to blame? The sister of one victim speaks out

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As the nation struggles to understand a 6-year-old bringing a gun to school and shooting someone, Elizabeth Krasinski has had a lifetime to think about the 6-year-old child who shot her sister to death in their first grade classroom 23 years ago.

who had brought a loaded gun to school, the New York Times reported. She was rushed to Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan and pronounced dead at 10:29 a.m."I was in history class when I got pulled out for my sister, and I was in history class when the Twin Towers got hit by the planes," she recalls.

I remember going to the table and shaking her to wake her up — telling her to wake up — and she didn’t wake up.Krasinski met her brother in the principal's office and says no one told either sibling what had happened. It wasn't until their stepfather picked them up and drove them to the hospital that they learned their sister had been shot.

"We got to the hospital and that's when my mom told me she was gone," Krasinski says."I didn't believe her. My sister would play jokes — she wanted to be funny and she wanted to be the light of any space. I told her: 'No, Kayla is playing a trick on us.' So she finally let me go into the room to see her. I remember looking at her, and the blue was starting to set in.

Shootings carried out by someone so young are extremely rare, according to David Riedman, founder of theIf this child was educated on the amount of damage and the amount of hurt this weapon could do, then he wouldn’t have... you know.The Newport News school shooting this month"is the 17th shooting by someone under 10 years of age in a school," he said."It’s rare for a 6-year-old to pull the trigger.

Krasinski says that when she found out the shooting was carried out by"another child" she was"angry with the parents and angry with society."While Krasinski says her mother shielded her from the details of her sister's shooting, when she turned 18 she did some"digging" and learned more about the 6-year-old child who killed Kayla.

 

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Squarely on the parents. Period. I hope they do jail time for negligence in this recent case

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