A MOM has pleaded guilty to accidentally murdering her daughter in a tragic shooting accident.
In 2018, Amanda Moffett, 43, struck her 16-year-old after firing a gun at a stray dog that was attacking kittens outside their Nowata, Oklahoma, home.
“Every gun owner has the legal responsibility to use extreme caution when discharging a firearm,” US attorney Clinton Johnson said in a press release after Monday’s ruling.
“This case, unfortunately, highlights the potential tragic results absent that caution.”
On October 5, 2018, Laramie Moffet told her mom that there was a stray dog running around their formerly Cherokee nation home, about 51 miles north of Tulsa.
“I went out onto my front porch and discharged a handgun at what I believed was the stray dog,” Amanda Moffett wrote in her federal plea agreement, per Law and Crime.
“When I discharged the firearm, it was dark outside, and I knew [my daughter] was outside of my home trying to save the kittens from the dog.
“I did not verify that [my daughter] was not in my line of fire when I discharged the handgun.”
Moffett admitted that her actions were negligent and told the court that shooting a gun under those conditions was irresponsible.
She said that she believes the shooting was the direct cause of her daughter’s heartwrenching death.
Source: the-sun.com
