Adults want charges dropped in Bremerton school shooting
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. - A court hearing Tuesday in Port Orchard may determine whether assault charges will stand against the adults prosecutors blame for a school shooting that nearly killed a Bremerton girl.
Lawyers for the mother of the 9-year-old boy who brought the gun to school and her boyfriend, who owns the gun, are asking that charges be dismissed.
Kitsap County prosecutors say the couple caused the shooting through the negligence of leaving the handgun where the boy could pick it up. He put it in his backpack, and it went off Feb. 22, critically wounding Amina Bowman.
The Kitsap Sun reports the lawyer for the mother, Jamie Chaffin, will argue the case should be moved to Mason County.
The lawyer for her boyfriend, Douglas Bauer, says he didn't cause the shooting.
Amina, the injured girl, sustained a serious injury to her small intestine in the shooting. She underwent several surgeries at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and could not eat or drink for weeks.
She was finally released from Harborview in early April, and her feeding tube was removed in mid-April.
The boy received a deferred prosecution. Amina will likely return to school in the fall, her parents said.
Lawyers for the mother of the 9-year-old boy who brought the gun to school and her boyfriend, who owns the gun, are asking that charges be dismissed.
Kitsap County prosecutors say the couple caused the shooting through the negligence of leaving the handgun where the boy could pick it up. He put it in his backpack, and it went off Feb. 22, critically wounding Amina Bowman.
The Kitsap Sun reports the lawyer for the mother, Jamie Chaffin, will argue the case should be moved to Mason County.
The lawyer for her boyfriend, Douglas Bauer, says he didn't cause the shooting.
Amina, the injured girl, sustained a serious injury to her small intestine in the shooting. She underwent several surgeries at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and could not eat or drink for weeks.
She was finally released from Harborview in early April, and her feeding tube was removed in mid-April.
The boy received a deferred prosecution. Amina will likely return to school in the fall, her parents said.
So, are there any criminals (directly or through negligence like these people) who do NOT want their charges dropped? This comes as absolutely no surprise.