Sullivan tells Blair Lane's parents: "I'm truly, deeply sorry"
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
A former part-time employee of an east Kansas City apartment complex has been charged in connection with the fatal Fourth of July shooting of an 11-year-old girl.Aaron Sullivan, 50, turned himself into authorities Thursday afternoon. Authorities say he and three others were firing Sullivan's weapon and one of the bullets traveled across the lake and struck Blair Shanahan Lane in the neck on the Fourth of July. She died the next day.
"We just made a stupid mistake," Sullivan told reporters. "It was a terrible accident."
Sullivan's brother and teen son journeyed with him to the Kan as City jail. Sullivan became emotional when saying as parent he knows the pain that Blair's family is enduring.
"I'm sorry," he said. "I knew it was wrong and I just want to tell the family from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry."
He later said he was "truly, deeply sorry."
