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Trial to Begin in Boy's Death at Mass. Gun Expo

Trial set to begin for ex-Mass. police chief charged in Conn. boy's shooting death at gun expo

The Associated Press
By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON December 5, 2010 (AP)

Eight-year-old Christopher Bizilj — 4-foot-3 and 66 pounds — stepped up to the firing range to shoot an Uzi as his father and 11-year-old brother watched from a few feet away.

As Christopher fired the 9mm micro submachine gun at a pumpkin, the weapon flipped backward and shot him in the head. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=12317439&page=1

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Judge Will Allow Jurors to See Video of 8-Year-Old Being Killed by Uzi at Gun Show

By KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: December 7, 2010

BOSTON — A judge ruled Tuesday that jurors can be shown video of an 8-year-old boy accidentally shooting himself in the head with a submachine gun at a gun show, setting up an unusually grisly courtroom scene in the manslaughter trial of a former police chief who organized the event.

Judge Peter A. Velis of Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, Mass., is still deciding whether audio from after the shooting — in which the boy can be heard screaming and his father praying — will be played for the jury. The video will be played in its entirety, but little is visible after the boy, Christopher Bizilj of Manchester, Conn., shot himself.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/08uzi.html

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Gun show organizer found not guilty in boy's Uzi death

From Bryan Lavietes, In Session
January 14, 2011 9:36 p.m. EST

Springfield, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A former police chief was found not guilty Friday of involuntary manslaughter in the 2008 death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself with a micro Uzi machine gun during a gun show.

Former Pelham, Massachusetts, Police Chief Edward Fleury, 53, was also acquitted of three counts of furnishing a machine gun to a minor in connection with the show that he helped organize. It was held at the Westfield Sportsman's Club in Westfield, Massachusetts.

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/14/...ict/index.html

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