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Joplin police sniper who killed a 2-year-old girl just became a Missouri state trooper (www.kcur.org)

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[–] xErah@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 week ago

At 9:25 p.m., he fired one round through the camper window. The crime scene analysis said it hit exactly where he aimed.

He thought he shot Eli Crawford in the chest.

Instead, he shot 2-year-old Clesslynn in the head.

The Cherokee County attorney’s report that exonerated Siebenaler only said, “evidence suggests Clesslynn was standing on the couch at the time of Sniper 1’s shot.”

But the former federal sniper is clear that firing at a silhouette is “careless.”

“I would never take a shot blindly at a silhouette without being able to identify what that silhouette is. How do you know that the silhouette doesn’t have a little kid in front of him?”

Right, so reckless shot in a known situation.