Information provided by responsible individuals -- some of this material has been confirmed by reports from sources not a party to the legal disputes.  The details that are believed correct and confirmed by independent sources are indicated by bold font:

      WBFF, FOX channel 45 reporter Jon Liberman gave a special report on the John Price shooting on their 8/21/01 10:00 pm news program which is posted in Real Video format under the fair use doctrine.  The special report's transcript, produced by FOX channel 45 and posted on their web site (http://www.foxbaltimore.com/news/newsstories.htm), is given at the bottom of this page.  This news report confirms only part of the items given below.

1. John Price was shot to death on Aug. 20, 1998 by a 9 year old playmate in the bedroom of the owner of a townhouse (8 Pine Cone Court) where the shooter's father sublet a room.

2. The 9 year old shooter is Philip Alexander.

3. Also present was 11 year old Alex Enurah who witnessed the shooting ("Prices sue gun maker, others Seek $6 million in son's killing Gun seller, owner also sued," 7/26/01, Charlie Muth, The Jeffersonian.com).

4. In addition to the victim, the shooter Philip Alexander, and Alex Enurah, a 13 year old girl was in the house at the time of the shooting.

5. The owner of the home and the gun involved was Mr. Dennis Danielczyk -- a son of a former Baltimore County Sheriff's deputy.  Mr. Danielczyk rented to two other men one of which was Philip Alexander's father.

6. The terms of the rental agreement with Mr. Danielczyk required that children are not to be in the house unsupervised and that each renter and the owner has his own bedroom and the owner's bedroom was not to be entered by the others.

7. Philip Alexander was visiting his father who did not have custody of Philip.

8. Philip Alexander was left unsupervised in the house by his father when the father went to work.

9. Philip Alexander's father gave him instructions that he was not to permit anyone else in the house when the father left him alone.

10. Philip Alexander's father was at work when the children entered Mr. Danielczyk's house.

11. Whenever my children went to people's homes, I always asked questions.  Questions like, Do you have permission to be in the home?  Are their parent's there?  What is the rating of the movie that you want to watch?  (Part of Carole Price's speech to the Million Mom's March, 14 May, 2000 taken from the Million Mom March Web site -- link now dead, but her entire speech is saved by the web archive here and, as a part of the collection of "Million Mom" speeches, here.)

12. The Brady Center quotes Carole Price as saying, "... John asked if he could go to our neighbor's house to play.  I told John to ask if he had permission to go into the home.  Philip, the 9-year-old boy who asked John to play, called his dad and received this permission."  ( Statement of Carole Price, July 24, 2001, one by her husband and one by their lawyer Daniel R. Vice).

13. John's request for permission to go to the friends house was made while his mother was on the phone talking to a friend.  Specifically, Carole Price has said, "I was talking on the phone getting dinner together when in popped my tall, dark, definitely handsome son.  Thirteen-year-old Johnboy, as we lovingly called him, sat at the top step of our split-foyer waiting for an answer from me on whether he could go to his friend's home for just a half hour more" in her statement posted on the Million Mom March web site.

14. The gun was a 9mm semi-automatic handgun and was stored unloaded in a drawer in Mr. Danielczyk's bedroom.  A magazine for the gun was stored separately from the gun. (Compare the statement by Daniel R. Vice, attorney for the Brady Center.)

15. All four children rummaged through Mr. Danielczyk's belongings in his room.  They find the 9mm in a drawer but no magazine.  They played with it (including racking the slide) then put it back.  They rummaged and trespassed more in the bedroom and found a magazine with bullets.  They went back to the gun inserted the magazine and played with it (again racking the slide).  They took the magazine out and not realizing there was a bullet in the chamber, Philip Alexander shot John Price.

16. John Price also played with the gun that killed him. (reported in Baltimore Sun, 9/21/98, "Boy, 13, fatally shot while visiting friends White Marsh youth was playing with gun, 3 others when killed," Dail Willis, page 1B)

17. A few months after the accident, Alex Enurah said that the 9-year-old boy had invited some neighborhood friends into the house while no adult was home and showed them the gun and how he could load it.  When he heard a car drive up near the house he panicked, Alex said.  The boy pulled the magazine clip out of the gun and when he went to put it away accidentally pulled the trigger and was shocked when the gun fired, Alex said.  (reported in "Prices sue gun maker, others Seek $6 million in son's killing Gun seller, owner also sued," 7/26/01, Charlie Muth, The Jeffersonian.com)

18. In Maryland it is a crime to store a firearm where it can be accessed by a minor.  Yet, Mr. Danielczyk has not been prosecuted because the children were trespassing and Mr. Danielczyk had no reason to expect children to be in his room.

 The Price Lawsuit

     The Prices have brought suit in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City against Ruger, the gun manufacturer; Fallston Gun and Pawn, Inc., the seller of the gun; Dennis Danielczyk, Jr., the owner of the gun; Larry Alexander, father of the child who shot John Price; and Philip Alexander, the boy who shot John.  The complaint filed provided additional "claims" for this event.