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The Associated Press State & Local Wire
March 23, 2003, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 182 words
HEADLINE: 3-year-old boy accidentally kills grandfather in N.C. shooting
DATELINE: WILMINGTON, N.C.
BODY:
A Southport man whose 3-year-old grandson accidentally shot him with his own pistol died Saturday, family members said.
Jeffery Tobias Shaw, 40, was declared dead at New Hanover Regional Medical Center after being taken off life support.
"It was a freak accident," his wife, Teresa Shaw, told the Morning Star of Wilmington.
Shaw, a member of the National Rifle Association and a gun club, had put a loaded handgun in his vehicle as he prepared to go to a gun range Friday. The boy picked up the gun and shot Shaw once in the head as he stood in the yard.
The boy has several toy guns and didn't know the difference between those and real ones, Teresa Shaw said.
Law enforcement officials could not be reached for comment over the weekend. No charges had been filed by Sunday, said Robert Gandy, Southport city manager.
"He was a fine man," said Teresa Shaw, Shaw's wife of 19 years.
"He was a very Christian and community-oriented man who would go out of his way to get involved," said Southport Mayor Norman Holden, who served on a church board with Jeffery Shaw.
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March 23, 2003, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 182 words
HEADLINE: 3-year-old boy accidentally kills grandfather in N.C. shooting
DATELINE: WILMINGTON, N.C.
BODY:
A Southport man whose 3-year-old grandson accidentally shot him with his own pistol died Saturday, family members said.
Jeffery Tobias Shaw, 40, was declared dead at New Hanover Regional Medical Center after being taken off life support.
"It was a freak accident," his wife, Teresa Shaw, told the Morning Star of Wilmington.
Shaw, a member of the National Rifle Association and a gun club, had put a loaded handgun in his vehicle as he prepared to go to a gun range Friday. The boy picked up the gun and shot Shaw once in the head as he stood in the yard.
The boy has several toy guns and didn't know the difference between those and real ones, Teresa Shaw said.
Law enforcement officials could not be reached for comment over the weekend. No charges had been filed by Sunday, said Robert Gandy, Southport city manager.
"He was a fine man," said Teresa Shaw, Shaw's wife of 19 years.
"He was a very Christian and community-oriented man who would go out of his way to get involved," said Southport Mayor Norman Holden, who served on a church board with Jeffery Shaw.
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