Toddler killed by hunter’s stray bullet
A toddler in upstate New York was shot and killed when a hunter fired a rifle too close to her grandparents’ mobile home where she was staying.
Edward Taibi, 45, of Queens was being held without bail Monday after arraignment on a second-degree manslaughter charge in the town of Bethel court. Taibi was hunting from a tree stand Sunday afternoon in rural Sullivan County when he shot a deer. He came down from the stand and fired the .30-caliber rifle again about 400 feet away from a trailer home in Swan Lake, a small community just south of the Catskill Mountains.
The bullet hit 16-month-old Charly Skala in the upper body. She was flown to Westchester Medical Center, where she died. Police said the child’s parents live in nearby Woodburne.
Taibi is friends with the owner of the neighboring property and had hunted there before, said State Police Lt. Pierce Gallagher.
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