Friends Playing with Guns; One Man is Killed

In an Owensboro, Kentucky apartment, three friends were smoking marijuana and “playing with handguns in an unsafe manner” when one of the guns unintentionally discharged, fatally striking 22-year-old Dawone Howard in the head. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. The sheriff’s department recovered multiple guns at the scene, including a handgun that was reported stolen. Cayden Maxwell Moorman, age 21 was charged with reckless homicide and the other man was charged with receiving stolen property.

Source:

Ryan Richardson, “DCSO: Owensboro Man Charged with Reckless Homicide After Fatal Shooting; Victim Identified,”owensborotimes.com (August 16, 2024).