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A Kansas City man has admitted to firing the gunshots that killed an Independence girl on the Fourth of July.
Aaron Sullivan, 50, pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 11-year-old Blair Shanahan Lane.
Sullivan appeared before Circuit Judge John Torrence. Sullivan acknowledged that he fired a gun and allowed others to fire it on the night of July 4.
Court documents showed that during a celebration at a Kansas City apartment complex Sullivan and others fired the .900 mm Glock into the air. Because the weapon belonged to Sullivan, he was the one charged.
Blair was visiting near the complex at the same time and was killed by an errant bullet that struck her in the neck.
After the hearing, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker urged legislators to pass “Blair’s Law,” which would make discharging a firearm in city limits a felony, with some exceptions.
Blair was a student at Nativity of Mary Catholic School in Independence, a Girl Scout and an active member in Girls on the Run. In her memory, the Blair’s Foster Socks Foundation was created to fulfill one of her ambitions, which was to provide socks for foster children.
A Kansas City man has admitted to firing the gunshots that killed an Independence girl on the Fourth of July.
Aaron Sullivan, 50, pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 11-year-old Blair Shanahan Lane.
Sullivan appeared before Circuit Judge John Torrence. Sullivan acknowledged that he fired a gun and allowed others to fire it on the night of July 4.
Court documents showed that during a celebration at a Kansas City apartment complex Sullivan and others fired the .900 mm Glock into the air. Because the weapon belonged to Sullivan, he was the one charged.
Blair was visiting near the complex at the same time and was killed by an errant bullet that struck her in the neck.
After the hearing, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker urged legislators to pass “Blair’s Law,” which would make discharging a firearm in city limits a felony, with some exceptions.
Blair was a student at Nativity of Mary Catholic School in Independence, a Girl Scout and an active member in Girls on the Run. In her memory, the Blair’s Foster Socks Foundation was created to fulfill one of her ambitions, which was to provide socks for foster children.
