An Oklahoma man who was doing target practice in his backyard on Christmas is believed to have shot and killed an elderly woman a few blocks from his home, authorities said.

Cody Wayne Adams, 33, has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in connection with the deadly shooting, court filings show.

The victim was on a covered front porch with family members at a residence in Comanche when she was shot Thursday afternoon, according to the probable cause affidavit. She was holding a baby in her left arm while seated on a love seat when she was struck in her right upper arm, according to the affidavit. The bullet then entered her chest cavity, it said.

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[–] 109 points 10 months ago (20 children)

Law enforcement investigating the shooting canvassed several residences to the north of the deadly shooting and found that all but one -- Adams' -- had "suitable shooting backstops or firing locations," according to the affidavit.

So… pretty much everyone in the area had a shooting range except the accused?

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    Exactly. Why didn’t he have a shooting range too?

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Apparently he did, just lacking the important part of a fucking backstop.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Backstop is not sufficient. You will miss it eventually. Should be a backstop and no one living behind it

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Honestly anything less than a 15' berm or reinforced wall should not be a permissible firing location in a residential area. And I still wouldn't put it past people to miss.

    Not that we really need personal firing ranges in everyone's backyard.

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  • [–] 78 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    A "backstop" is not a shooting range...

    It's usually just a pile of dirt.

    It's wild for a bunch of people in a neighborhood to all be doing this, because even if the first couple are kind of safe about it, every idiot starts thinking jt's safe to just shoot at a can or anything. All they know is they hear gunshots

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Sounds like a terrible neighbourhood to live in, shots going off from everyone all the time

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    My parents have a place to shoot in their yard. It's a stack of old railroad ties four deep, two wide and ten tall with dirt piled up around the back. There is an empty field for over a mile behind that. I can't imagine using it if anyone was any closer.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, this happened literally 4 houses down from me. We all shoot guns, but we have targets, and those that dont go down to the bridge and fire into the creek bank. This whole thing is because he was lazy/stupid.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Just checking, you go to the stream and shot lead bullets it? That then infiltrates the watershed. So there's a lead poisoning problem in your area?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    This happens everywhere. The VFW in the next town over has a "turkey shoot" where they shoot bird shot over a river at a pavilion with targets on the side. All that bird shot just goes straight into the river. The VFW is in the center of town, so it's not like it's ever been a secret.

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