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Oregon child, 5, killed by machine-gun shot

Transient's rifle fired, hitting girl, woman upstairs, police said

The Columbian
Published: June 28, 2013, 5:00pm

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A 5-year-old girl was killed and a woman wounded in Grants Pass after an assault rifle went off and shot them in an upstairs room of an apartment, police said.

A 30-year-old transient who was visiting the apartment was arraigned Friday on charges of manslaughter, assault and illegal possession of a machine gun, Chief Deputy District Attorney Lisa Turner said. The manslaughter charge alleges the killing was reckless, not intentional.

Police said Jon Andrew Meyer Jr. was arrested Thursday night at the scene.

The name of his court-appointed attorney was not immediately available.

Bail was set at $250,000, Turner said.

The district attorney’s information charging Meyer identified the girl who was killed as Alyssa Bobbit, and the woman who was wounded as Karen Hancock.

Turner said she could not divulge the make and model of the rifle, who owned it, or whether it was manufactured as a fully automatic weapon or modified later.

Police said Meyer was in a downstairs room of the apartment when the rifle went off there, and the girl and the woman were upstairs in the same apartment. The woman was not related to the girl, whose mother was also in the apartment but not shot, Turner said.

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