A Deadly Accident with a Ghost Gun

Andre Skinner of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged with negligent homicide after he told police that he was trying to take apart a ghost gun “to become more familiar with it.”  He first removed the magazine but wasn’t aware that there was a round still in the chamber. When the gun fired, the round struck and killed 15-year-old Kennedi Belton, a high school freshman who was attending a sleepover with some friends in the next room. 

The gun apparently did not have a magazine safety disconnect. Like all ghost guns, it was short on safety features.

Source:

Mike Perlstein, “Suspect in Killing of Warren Easton Student Told Police He Was ‘Playing With a Gun’” wwltv.com (January 31, 2023).