Teen charged with reckless homicide after accidentally fatally shooting 9-year-old, police say

2025-04-20 06:31:54 source: category:News

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 14-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree reckless homicide after accidentally fatally shooting a 9-year-old last month, authorities said.

The teen said he shot Harwinder Singh in the back seat of a car after finding a gun in the glove compartment when a man got out of the vehicle to enter a business, a criminal complaint said.

The shooting occurred July 24 in a strip mall parking lot, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday.

A witness who knows the boys and the 43-year-old man in the car took the gun from the scene but later returned to give it to Milwaukee police, the complaint said.

The teen will be tried in juvenile court on charges that also include possession of a dangerous weapon by a minor and obstructing an officer.

The shooting happened three days before Singh’s 10th birthday.

The relationship between the two boys, as well as their relationship with the man in the car wasn’t clear.

More:News

Recommend

RFK Jr. grilled again about moving to California while listing New York address on ballot petition

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he plans to return to live in New York, as the in

On 2nd anniversary of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, girls' rights remain under siege

United Nations – After two years of attempted talks with the Taliban aimed at lifting its bans on se

Some Maui wildfire survivors hid in the ocean. Others ran from flames. Here's what it was like to escape.

People in Lahaina, a Maui town almost entirely destroyed by fast-moving wildfires, have shared horri