In a terrible tragedy involving one child shooting another, Benjamin Nicolas Tiller expects to spend eight years in a juvenile prison, remaining until his 19th birthday. He was found guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting of MaKayla Dyer after she refused to permit him to play with her puppy.
Tiller then said he would ‘be right back’ and took a BB gun and a 12-gauge shotgun from a closet. When he arrived back at the mobile home, he told the girls that he had guns, according to the document.
After MaKayla laughed at him and told him that she didn’t believe the guns were real, Tiller pointed the shotgun through the window of the home at MaKayla and fired.
The bullet hit her just above her heart, the document states.
I don’t condone gun ownership, but I do frown upon bad parenting and not securing weapons in a safe, unloaded, with the safety on. If you own guns, then you’re expected to be responsible for ensuring that children cannot attain them.
Benjamin Nicolas Tiller’s parents should be in prison.