A teenager Houston Southeast surrendered to police Monday afternoon and was charged the accidental shooting death of his girlfriend of 16 years of age, during a meeting with friends in your home.The teenager arrested, identified by friends of girl killed as Donald James, 16, is accused of murder criminally negligent and will be reserved for Center James of juvenile detention in the County of Harris has written a letter to the family of his girlfriend, Waddieonne "yonnie" Griffin, a student from eighth in Caldwell Middle School, apologizing for his death, which happened outside your House on a block of Alvin 4900 Saturday morning. But her family still irritated with him about the shooting ".If this (shooting) had been anything other than an accident, would have been the charge of murder, "said the researcher Division homicide Police Department Houston M.F."fil "waters, noting the charge was based on statements of witnesses and other evidence. "It was an accident by a boy of 16 years of age".James ' family declined to comment on Monday, and his mother was crying when he arrived at his home in Houston East. Police said James told them that he has is home.Griffin, James and some friends were standing outside his house, at 12: 55 Saturday when Griffin asked James to give him a gun that a friend had brought to the residence, police said. Griffin wanted to trim the weapon so that nobody would get hurt, investigators of homicide HPD said.As James attempted to drop hammer the weapon to a position of not firing, the hammer slipped and caused accidentally firearm, police said. The bullet hit Griffin on his left arm and then traveled through the left side of chest. Her boyfriend tried to help her up police and paramedics arrived, HPD homicide investigators said.In duplex humble that Griffin shared with his mother in a 5100 block of Mallow, miniature poodle girl killed, Paw Paw, is tied to a leash for your bed well done, crying as he waits for her return home. The teen girl baby picture and bronzed baby shoes sitting on top of a TV at the foot of his bed. Magazine pages representing women hairstyles are written to your wall of my room. "As time goes by, I keep thinking that she will come home, you know? "said the girl's mother, Linda Griffin, a single father who works in the health care industry home."I'll never take my daughter anymore. Was my best friend. We could talk about anything. "She said that she remains very irritated with James about the death of his daughter. "I hate it," said Linda Griffin, who said she didn't like daughter's relationship with James "from day one." She said she wants James to serve jail time for shooting your daughter.Griffin said that she had sent a text message to James telling him that she does not approve of it dating her daughter and that she wanted to stay away from the girl. "He knew how I felt about it," she said.But Yonnie continued to see her boyfriend without the knowledge of his mother, telling her mother that she was in the House of girlfriend playing on the computer when she was actually in the House of James ', said his mother.On the morning of the shooting, Linda Griffin said that she was asleep in bed when she heard a loud knocking on your door. When she answered, was James. The 16-year-old boy was hysterical and crying, she said and grabbed her and she hugged when he relayed the news that her daughter had been shot.He only was screaming, ' sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Miss Linda, I'm sorry, ' "she recalled. She said that she ran for the House of James ' and then rushed to Memorial Hermann Hospital, but her daughter died before she arrives.Griffin said that she and her daughter returned to Houston for two years ago, New Orleans, where are originally. Her daughter is set to rest in New Orleans, she said.peggy.ohare@chron.com
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