Teens playing with gun before 15-year-old was killed

Published December 18, 2021 10:41 AM

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Court documents say a 19-year-old who is charged with fatally shooting his 15-year-old friend had been playing with a pink gun before the weapon went off at an Independence home. Elijah Soliz was charged Friday with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the Dec. 11 shooting. No attorney is listed for him in online court records. A police detective wrote in the probable cause statement that Soliz described the shooting as accidental.

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