Taken From: http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2008/09/05/news/news3.txt

 

JOHNSON CREEK - An 11-year-old Johnson Creek boy died from a gunshot wound Thursday at his home. Foul play is not suspected and the sheriff's department said this morning it appears the shooting was accidental.

 

 

 

According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, dispatchers received a report of the shooting in the town of Farmington at approximately 2:15 p.m. Thursday. The deceased person was Joshua J. Nimm, 11, of W5098 River Road, Johnson Creek.

 

 

 

Deputies, along with personnel from the Johnson Creek Police Department, Johnson Creek EMS and Fort Atkinson paramedics, all responded to the residence where the shooting occurred.

 

 

 

There, with his father, Nimm was located with a fatal gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead by the Jefferson County Coroner's office about 35 minutes later. The cause of death was ruled to be a single, .22 caliber gunshot wound to the head.

 

 

 

We are ruling that it is an accidental shooting, Jefferson County Detective Sgt. Larry Lee said. The child was getting ready for school and decided to skip school. He was playing video games and we found out he had a .22 caliber rifle that belongs to him. He had access to the rifle and a magazine was kept somewhere else by his parents. He was familiar with the rifle and had been shooting it a couple of times a month - he lived out in the country, so that was nothing unusual.

 

 

 

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Lee said it appeared, following the department's investigation, that after playing a combat video game called Halo, Nimm took the gun and tried to recreate some of the things that had occurred in the game. With an automatic rifle, Lee said there can sometimes be confusion over whether it contains a magazine or not, and this confusion likely led to Nimm's death.

 

 

 

He took the magazine out and forgot to eject a round that was in the chamber. He probably thought the gun was unloaded, Lee said.

 

 

 

Lee said numerous people, including Nimm's parents, his school teachers and his bus driver, were all interviewed and stated he had shown no signs of depression or any differences in his personality recently.

 

 

 

Dad came home in the afternoon and when he came in the house, the child was in the home and was deceased, Lee said.

 

 

 

Lee said the incident shows the need for extreme safety with firearms.

 

 

 

The safety issue with weapons is so important. People should always treat them like they are loaded, he said.

 

 

 

Nimm was a student at Johnson Creek Middle School. Funeral arrangements are pending at Hafemeister Funeral Home in Watertown.

 

 

 

Honestly, what is this world coming to.

sometimes you just have to stand in awe of halo.

People are idiots.

Lol, I know. I mean really. Leave a 11 year old with a .22

Lol, I know. I mean really. Leave a 11 year old with a .22

 

 

 

 

 

no. leave it to parents letting 11 year old kids access to a .22 rifle and authorizing them to play M rated games.

That's awful. What can you make of such an incident? :|

Another one for the Darwin awards.

Wait, a .22 registered to an 11 year old? There's the first mistake right there.

I should really be surprised at this....

 

 

 

But kids with guns are too common nowadays, so whats there to be shocked about...

I don't think shooting yourself is part of Halo.....

I don't think shooting yourself is part of Halo.....

 

 

 

Rofl no matter how hard you try, you can never get a gun to point at yourself when you're alone.

First of all they called it combat... When I think of combat I don't think of shooting, I think of fighting w/o guns. Shooter :lol:. That's like when they called a game on the wii a computer game. There's a reason we have helpful side categories, so we don't get confused on the type of game. Now that that's cleared up, this doesn't really shock me. Little kids will try to imitate anything they see. The parents should be blamed, leaving a little kid alone, unsupervised, with a loaded gun. Did they never see him playing hooky? Also how do they know he 'tried' to unload it. It said they keep the magazine somewhere hidden, where did he get it?

 

 

 

Sounds to me like the parents let their child play with a loaded gun and don't want to accept blame for it. After all in our great society the parents can never screw up.

I read about this on the MLG forums a few days ago. Pretty sad.

It's the parents fault but the game's gonna get the blame.

Lol, I know. I mean really. Leave a 11 year old with a .22

 

It's common in the country.

 

 

 

[developmentally delayed]s like this, aren't. Was this in Arkansas?

I don't remember Master Chief being a suicidal emo [bleep]

I don't remember Master Chief being a suicidal emo [bleep]

 

 

 

lol, I know. I mean why shoot yourself in the head? The only way you can commit suicide by what YOu did is an explosion, or a bounceback headshot suicide.

Copypasta from a rant me and my friend made up over msn cause im cool like that -

 

 

 

Let me make a few points to condradict this:

 

 

 

1.You can't shoot yourself in Halo

 

 

 

2. I doubt halo was the only action game he had.

 

 

 

3.Halo was probably the game in the Xbox when he shot himself.

 

 

 

4.The parents gave their 11 year old son a rifle on a regular basis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The media will do anything to find a scapegoat instead of blaming the parents. In reality, the kid was stupid and the parents were even more stupid.

 

 

 

 

 

Also ive figured out the media's way for blaming suicides:

 

 

 

1. The kid wears anything black or listens to music: Its 'My Chemical Romances or 's' fault

 

 

 

2. The Kid plays games: it was the game that is currently in the system...failing that, then its the only game the parents know.

 

 

 

 

 

3. The kid likes movies: Then blame the most violent movie that is out at the moment or the most violent film they own.

 

 

 

 

 

You never see the media blame the obviously abusive parents or bullies that led to the suicide.

You can however stand on a plasma grenade or shoot the ground with a rocket. Then you can blame Halo for that one.

I don't remember Master Chief being a suicidal emo [bleep]

 

 

 

He just done it with plasma nades.

Yet another problem with the American gun culture, a 11 year old with a rifle, come on that's just asking for trouble.

Whats with the trend of blaming video games?

 

 

 

Stupid kid needed to be more careful. Its not a [bleep]ing game's fault.

It's nothing to do with the game.

 

 

 

I can just about maybe understand the "need" for a family to have a gun in the house... perhaps. What was an 11 year old doing with his own rifle though? In fact, forget that - what the hell could an 11 year old actually do with a gun if someone did break into his house?

 

 

 

Why was the magazine kept in a separate place, but the gun was kept loaded?

 

 

 

It's the parent's stupidity that's the only cause of this. They'd be prosecuted for manslaughter here on grounds of negligence.

It's nothing to do with the game.

 

 

 

I can just about maybe understand the "need" for a family to have a gun in the house... perhaps. What was an 11 year old doing with his own rifle though? In fact, forget that - what the hell could an 11 year old actually do with a gun if someone did break into his house?

 

 

 

Why was the magazine kept in a separate place, but the gun was kept loaded?

 

 

 

It's the parent's stupidity that's the only cause of this. They'd be prosecuted for manslaughter here on grounds of negligence.

 

 

 

Just like Madeline McCann's parents...

I read this article on IGN.

 

 

 

Seriously, if theres confusion about whether or not the gun is loaded, you think maybe it would be a good idea to check before firing it?

 

 

 

 

 

Both kid and parents are [wagon]es.