Teen admits to reckless homicide charge, father indicted in shooting death of 11-year-old Nelsonville boy
The Athens County Prosecutor s Office said the 14-year-old admitted in court to a charge of reckless homicide in the death of 11-year-old Eli Spangler.
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NELSONVILLE, Ohio A 14-year-old boy charged in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old Nelsonville boy admitted to an allegation of reckless homicide in court Tuesday, according to the Athens County Prosecutor s Office.
According to the police report, Eli Spangler was at his friend s house on March 6 when the 14-year-old got a gun out of the cabinet to show it off.
A Nelsonville teen and his father were charged in connection to the March death of Eli Spangler, 11.
Mason Platt, 14, was adjudicated as delinquent by Athens County Juvenile Court Judge Zach Saunders. He reportedly admitted Tuesday in Athens County Juvenile Court to the charge of reckless homicide, according to an Athens County Prosecutorâs Office press release.
Platt was reportedly playing with a firearm that went off and killed Spangler on March 6 at Plattâs home, the prosecutorâs office said.
In addition, Plattâs father, Donald Platt, 37, of Nelsonville was indicted Tuesday morning by an Athens County Grand Jury on charges of involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony; endangering children, a third-degree felony; and tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, according to court documents.
Red Mountain Press, 2020
One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother itself a disorienting experience, for anyone that anticipates her death, reconciles itself to it, and resumes living, in a new way.
The collection is also a kind of reckoning with the work of late midlife (the speaker in all the poems, clearly Platt, is sixty-two): locating himself at this new, unfamiliar stretch of the road; dealing with wife Dana’s aging father (whom, like his mother, lives in another state); parenting adult children (one of whom is bipolar). Whereas in one poem (“Happy Day”) he and Dana “are making out, rutting like teenagers in heat / in the front seat,” in another (“Ocean’s Acid Reflux”) she wakes up “gagging on curried / chicken coming back up, harsh acids burning the back of her throat.” No matter how young we feel at a given moment, age catches up to everyone.
by Michael Quinn | Jan 31, 2021One Illuminated Letter of Beingby Donald PlattRed Mountain Press, 2020 One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother itself a disorienting experience, for anyone that. by Michael Quinn | Jan 15, 2020 The Miracles by Amy Lemmon C&R Press, 2019. Amy Lemmon’s book of poems, The Miracles, is a meditation on life after loss, and its themes are motherhood, love, and aging. Lemmon writes, “The structure of the book was inspired by Leonard.
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