Trending Video : Gun Instructor Charles Vacca Accidentally Shot in the Head by 9 Year Old Girl in Arizona
ARIZONA, USA — Authorities have released a video showing the final moments of a gun instructor before he was accidentally shot in the head b...
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ARIZONA, USA — Authorities have released a video showing the final moments of a gun instructor before he was accidentally shot in the head by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi submachine gun. The instructor, identified as 39-year-old Charles Vacca, had been teaching the child how to wield the Uzi in full-automatic mode when the freak accident happened, they said. According to an investigation, the incident happened in a shooting range in northwestern Arizona at around 10 AM Monday.
The video, which was taken by the girl’s parents, shows Vacca initially teaching the girl how to fire the UZI in single shot mode, which she does successfully. Next, he tells her to fire the weapon in full automatic mode. After firing a few rounds, the video is then cut off abruptly. Onlookers provided the gruesome spectacle that followed next. According to them, the girl couldn’t handle the recoil from the fully automatic weapon. In just a few moments the barrel had lurched over her head and drifted left to where Vacca was standing. The gun instructor was hit square in the head by a stray bullet. Vacca was later airlifted to Las Vegas’ University Medical Center, but succumbed to his wounds Monday night. His friends, family, and colleagues described him as a humorous guy and a very conscientious professional.
The video, which was taken by the girl’s parents, shows Vacca initially teaching the girl how to fire the UZI in single shot mode, which she does successfully. Next, he tells her to fire the weapon in full automatic mode. After firing a few rounds, the video is then cut off abruptly. Onlookers provided the gruesome spectacle that followed next. According to them, the girl couldn’t handle the recoil from the fully automatic weapon. In just a few moments the barrel had lurched over her head and drifted left to where Vacca was standing. The gun instructor was hit square in the head by a stray bullet. Vacca was later airlifted to Las Vegas’ University Medical Center, but succumbed to his wounds Monday night. His friends, family, and colleagues described him as a humorous guy and a very conscientious professional.
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However, experts in firearms safety said that he should never have taught the child how to handle that gun, considering that it was a high-powered one. Ronald Scott, a Phoenix-based expert, said that while shooting ranges have strict rules and regulations when it comes to minors handling firearms, he also warned that “You can’t give a 9-year-old an Uzi and expect her to control it.” Gun range owner Jeff Frichette concurs and said that although a 9-year-old could “hypothetically” fire a fully automatic weapon, it’s still up to the gun instructor’s own “discretionary decision” whether he should allow the child to hold the firearm.
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