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16 year old Boy found Dead, after Shooting himself with his Father's Gun
A teenage boy found dead after
apparently shooting himself with his father's gun was a member of a
school's cadet force which trains youngsters how to fire semi-automatic
rifles, it emerged today.
Charlie
Booth, 16, died at the home he shared with his father, Nicholas, 52,
the director of a farm equipment supplier, and marketing assistant
mother Julia, 48, in Cobham, Kent.
Police confirmed his death was not being treated as suspicious, but would not say whether it was an accident or suicide.
The gun is believed to be licensed and Kent Police say they are not making any inquiries into the ownership of the weapon.
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Charlie tweeted about having bad moods and spoke of needing to 'sort myself out' the day before he died.
The tweet followed a succession of
tweets from late February where the school boy claimed '@Charliebooth18 I
don't now why I feel like this' and 'Everything seems to turn into an
argument.. :/.
He was also a member of the school's
Combined Cadet Force, which trains pupils in a range of military
activities including shooting, survival training, rock climbing and
taking part in assault courses.
His efforts in the cadets were
praised in the Gadshillian newsletter after the schoolboy took part in a
cadet weekend at the Army's Lydd Firing Range in Kent last year.
During the events, which according to
the newsletter included 'weapons training, rock climbing and archery',
cadets took part in 25m shooting range practice with semi-automatic
L98A2 rifle, capable of 60-rounds-per-minute.
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