Brennick pleads not guilty to Lipscomb firearm charge
SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A man whose son was at their home with a 17-year-old friend who reportedly shot himself to death with a loaded rifle left in the defendant’s kitchen pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of criminal storage of a loaded firearm.
Luke Lipscomb
Kevin Brennick, 49, faces up to three years in prison if convicted.
The unlawful storage charge has as its premise that the accused knew or reasonably should have known that a child was likely to gain access to the firearm without parental permission and thereby caused death or great bodily injury.
“This is a charge that we don’t see very frequently,’’ Deputy District Attorney Rachel Cano said outside the courtroom.
Brennick — who is out of custody on his own recognizance — will be back in court Nov. 28 for a readiness conference and on Dec. 11 for a preliminary hearing.
He is charged in connection with the death last year of Luke Lipscomb, who reportedly shot himself between the eyes on Nov. 4, 2011, in Brennick’s home on Midland Road. The Poway High School junior died at a hospital two weeks later.
The loaded .22-caliber rifle was left in Brennick’s kitchen, according to investigators, who declined to say whether the defendant had a firearms license. No adults were present at the time of the shooting.
According to court documents, Lipscomb was with his friends, including Brennick’s son, smoking marijuana the night of the shooting.
Lipscomb began hallucinating — possibly because the cannabis was laced with a designer drug — and hit himself in the head with a frying pan before shooting himself, according to a search warrant affidavit.
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on Oct 16 2012. Filed under Local News, Poway.
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So if I leave my registered loaded gun in my own house, and my son brings home a couple of friends who make the poor decision to get all hopped up on drugs, without my knowing, and one of the boys shoots himself, it's my fault? That's only one of the problems with our country.
Who exactly "reported" that he shot himself? The autopsy said it was "undetermined" and friends of the family said that the DA and Sheriff have not determined if he shot himself or if someone shot him. I would be interested to know where the reporter is getting their facts from.
Also to "Own Up" please don't ever leave a loaded weapon laying around your house. Accidentally or on purpose, no one wants to see another child killed. Be smart!