Natorrin Brown, a 17-year-old of LaGrange resident was fatally wounded shortly before midnight Tuesday, in a bizarre gun mishap.
Brown was among a group of people visiting with a friend, who was showing some of the visitors a gun hanging in his attic, when the loaded weapon went off.
A Troup Co. sheriff says the man was showing how the stock of a loaded AK-47 would go in and out a few inches, and "he disturbed the position of the gun." When it went back into position, the trigger hit a nail and the gun went off, hitting Brown as he stood in the doorway.
The gun fell to the floor, but Turner said gunpowder residue indicated it had fired while it was on the wall. To test the accident theory, sheriff's Chief Investigator Charles Nixon unloaded the gun, cocked it and put it back on the wall. He bumped it with his hand and the trigger activated when it slid back into place.
Nixon said he used a string to determine that the gun barrel would have been pointing where the victim stood. Nixon said he is conferring with the district attorney's office about the possibility of presenting charges to a grand jury.
(The Associated Press)
Brown was among a group of people visiting with a friend, who was showing some of the visitors a gun hanging in his attic, when the loaded weapon went off.
A Troup Co. sheriff says the man was showing how the stock of a loaded AK-47 would go in and out a few inches, and "he disturbed the position of the gun." When it went back into position, the trigger hit a nail and the gun went off, hitting Brown as he stood in the doorway.
The gun fell to the floor, but Turner said gunpowder residue indicated it had fired while it was on the wall. To test the accident theory, sheriff's Chief Investigator Charles Nixon unloaded the gun, cocked it and put it back on the wall. He bumped it with his hand and the trigger activated when it slid back into place.
Nixon said he used a string to determine that the gun barrel would have been pointing where the victim stood. Nixon said he is conferring with the district attorney's office about the possibility of presenting charges to a grand jury.
(The Associated Press)
