4-Year Old Shoots Babysitter – 4-year old Ethan Crisp got mad because his babysitter stepped on his toes, so he grabs a shotgun and shoots the babysitter.
After 18-year old Nathan Beavers stepped on his foot, 4-year old Ethan announced that he was going to get a gun, which everyone in the room thought would be a toy. Instead, Ethan loaded a 20-gauge shotgun and fired.
“I was in the kitchen, (and) I heard something go off. I dropped to the floor. (I) got up and heard my best friend say call 9-1-1,” said Ethan’s Uncle Brandon Fisher.
Fisher was also hit with BB’s from the shotgun shell, but he was not as seriously injured as the babysitter, 18-year-old Nathan Beavers.
“He knew it was wrong. He’d seen guns loaded and shot before, but he’s never seen the carnage it makes when it hits. He knows it now,” said Ethan’s father William Crisp.
Sheriff John Shasteen says he’s never seen anything like this.
“We can’t charge a 4-year-old with anything. We’ll talk to the prosecutor about possibly charging the parents or the babysitter,” said Shasteen.
After the shooting, Ethan knew he had done something wrong, continually telling police that he didn’t want to go to jail.
Babysitter Nathan Beavers is recovering from his wounds at the Ohio State University Medical Center.
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January 13th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 5th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
You have got to be kidding me…that kid had to have learned from his parent(s) how to load and shoot a gun…And now someone wants to charge the babysitter with a crime, for a 4 year olds temper!! Kids today see so much violence, and many are not taught right from wrong. They’re taught that immediate gratification is always the answer. The parents are responsible in this case…all guns need to be removed from the home, and this kid better learn while he is young that he could have taken someone’s life and not treat it like it’s a joke gone wrong. They’re starting younger and younger, and it’s not coincidence. It’s because they’re learning by bad example and bad parenting! Wake up!!!