That gets hurt or killed is not the one handling the firearm they are watching someone else thats playing with the gun and theyre curious and the gun goes off and its the other person in the room. Six of the 14 recorded shootings happened when a minor accidentally shot another minor. And nearly all of these incidents were inside someones home. And a reminder, in iowa it is illegal for someone under the age of 21 to possess a handgun. Its also illegal for tonight at 10 hear why Authorities Say theres an increasing use of gun handling among minors. Live in cedar rapids, jordee kalk, kcrg tv9 news. Eastern iowa has seen several accidental shootings in the last month. A shooting on the Southeast Side of cedar rapids killed ireshia parks. She was just 13. A 13 year old boy was handling a gun when it went off. A bullet hit parks. Manslaughter charge for her death. Two other teenagers are also charged in the shooting. A bullet also killed this 15 year old Senquez Jackson in march. Police say
14 accidental shootings of minors. Seven were fatal. Another seven resulted in injuries. Tv nines jordee kalk spoke with the Linn County Sheriffs Office who say its never too early to introduce kids to gun safety. 45 58, i think its very important even at an early age to just begin talking about it they might be too young to handle a fire arm but they need to know what to do if someone else is. Authorities s they see a gun it can be a danger. If a child sees a gun, he or she should know to tell an adult immediately. 46 09, many times the person that gets hurt or killed is not the one handling the firearm. Rarely the minor accidentally shot him or herself. 8 out of the 14 shootings it was minors shooting minors. This was the case for 13 yearold ireshia parks. She was shot and killed by another 13yearold in cedar rapids just last month. Nat a similar situation also killed 15yearold Senquez Jackson in march. Police say another teen fired what he thought was an unloaded gun at jackson. 49
Overall, plan on a very muggy day with dew points well into the 70s. Actual air temperatures should warm to the low 80s in all locations. Plan on a chance of scattered storms, prarily after 10am. Unfortunately, these will be so poorly organized, its tough to time out favored areas of dry or wet weather this afternoon and the chance of storms will have to be maintained until the sun goes down. Like yesterday, any storms that form will be extremely slowmoving, leading to areas of excess rainfall in isolated spots. The same boundary is still in our area tomorrow, but will move south tomorrow night. From wednesday through saturday, cooler High Pressure builds in as a tropical system impacts the southeast united states. Today scattered t ght s. Low 67 tomorrow ae of storms. Partly sunny. Nd nw 510. High 80 tom. Night storms early, then partly cloudy. Wind w 510. Low 62tha people in elkader are making progress after devastating flooding late last week. But theres a lot of work to be done. Th
Just want to take a minute to show you how severe this flooding was. If i would have been standing in this exact spot on friday, the water would have been up from Central Plumbing all the way back to their dock and that was all sandbags 7 feet high and tonight at 10, hear how the Flood Impacted Businesses along the turkey river. Live in elkader, jordee kalk, kcrg tv cedar rapids and how can we stop it . Parents, Law Enforcement and fed up residents are working on solving those questions right now in redmond park. This comes after numerous shootings in town, some involving minors. Last september this fourteen year old, robert humbles, shot and killed another teen. Humbles bullet hit fifteenyearold Aaron Richardson in the abdomen during a fight between two ri part of town. Humbles pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter among other charges. Kcrg tv nines phil reed was at todays rally for change. The annual stop the violence the man accused of sexually finally transferred to a facility w
In rural linn county. In them you can see some funnel clouds from that same storm system. So lets bring in meteorologist chris havely with your first alert forecast. , we took a lot of calls about the tornado sirens going off. But it seems like it was a pretty small twister . Any shower or storms in the area will quickly dissipate once the sun sets, and temperatures similar to saturday nights where we will have some people in elkader are exhausted weekend cleaning up flood debris. And the work isnt done yet. The turkey river crested at 22 and a half feet on friday. Thats about five feet lower than the National Weather service predicted. People stacked sandbags along the river to protect the town. Who wouldnt after seeing the river like this. Kcrg friday. Water gushed past businesses that have been closed since thursday. Tv nines jordee kalk shows us the citys progress. 14 03, and it was over the railing here, and you couldnt come down here, the waves were just splashing. This isnt paul