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Montana Man Kills 3-Year-old Playing Gun Tag - He Forgot the One in the Chamber

Posted on the 28 October 2014 by Mikeb302000
Galen Hawk told investigators he didn't know his .380 handgun was loaded when he fatally shot 3-year-old Lonato Moran-Allen. (NBC Montana/Lake County Sheriff's Office)
Galen Hawk told investigators he didn’t know his .380 handgun was loaded when he fatally shot 3-year-old Lonato Moran-Allen. (NBC Montana/Lake County Sheriff’s Office)
Washington Times
A Montana man is facing up to 20 years in prison after he shot and killed a 3-year-old boy in a game of “gun tag.” Lonato Moran-Allen, 3, was playing with a toy gun Wednesday night when he pretended to shoot 26-year-old Galen Hawk. Hawk told investigators he didn’t know his .380 handgun was loaded when he picked it up and returned a shot, fatally striking the boy. He attempted to do CPR on the boy, but he later died at a nearby hospital

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