Child goes to hang out at friend's home and gets shot to death with AR-style rifle while teen is eating in kitchen, police say

Inset: Gabriel Osorio (West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: The Southern Regional Jail successful Beaver, W.Va. (Google Maps).

A teen successful West Virginia is down bars aft a kid was shot to death wrong a location earlier this week with an AR-style rifle, instrumentality enforcement successful the Mountain State says.

Gabriel Osorio, 18, stands accused of child neglect resulting successful death, according to the Oak Hill Police Department.

The incidental occurred connected Nov. 3 astatine a residence connected Third Street successful Oak Hill, a tiny metropolis immoderate 50 miles southeast of Charleston.

Officers arrived successful effect to a telephone astir a gunshot wounded and met with the teen, who "appeared distressed and was screaming for help," according to a transgression ailment obtained by Lewisburg-based CBS and Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WVNS.

Investigators besides saw a lad lying connected his backmost successful the beforehand doorway of the location with humor connected his head, the Oak Hill Police Department said.

An serviceman moved to render assistance arsenic different archetypal responders were called to help, but to nary avail. The kid was rushed to 1 hospital, past flown to another, but died astatine the 2nd location, police said.

Inside the house, investigators recovered what they described arsenic an AR-style weapon connected apical of a bed, according to the charging document.

During an archetypal interrogation with detectives, the suspect allegedly said the unfortunate had been changeable by different minor, according to the complaint. After that, investigators located 2 further children crossed the thoroughfare from the location and spoke with them earlier separating each the witnesses, constabulary said.

After being work his Miranda rights, the suspect allegedly told constabulary helium invited the 3 minors implicit to the location portion his stepmother was astatine the bank. Osorio acceptable up a talker successful a chamber truthful the minors could perceive to euphony portion hanging out, according to the charging document.

The suspect said 1 of the children recovered the weapon — which helium had conscionable purchased a fewer days earlier — nether the furniture and took it retired truthful the radical could airs and instrumentality photos with it, constabulary said. Osorio told investigators the firearm did not person a mag loaded astatine the time.

Rather, the suspect said, the mag was kept successful a abstracted locked box, according to the charging document. At immoderate point, however, 1 of the minors recovered a cardinal to the box, unlocked it, and removed the magazine, Osorio allegedly told police. At this point, the suspect took the weapon distant from the minors and told them to permission the limb alone, according to the charging document.

Later, Osorio was eating successful the room erstwhile a azygous changeable was fired, according to the complaint. The suspect went into the chamber and saw the injured child. He besides said helium saw different kid propulsion the weapon onto the bed, constabulary said. Osorio allegedly said helium archetypal tried to halt the kid who seemingly fired the limb from moving distant earlier heading backmost to the wounded kid to render assistance and telephone for help.

The suspect is presently detained successful the Southern Regional Jail with nary bond.

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