Wow small world, that was a high school friend of mine's college buddy and he was up in vt this past week for the funeral. Apparently they had a game of shooting each other with bb guns and that time it went horribly wrong. Why anyone would keep a loaded gun in their home is beyond me, but I also don't know how you could mistake a .22 for a bb gun. My friends with guns always tell me never point a gun, loaded or not, at something you don't want destroyed. Still a really sad story though.
Sounds like we have some mutual friends.... big surprise!
Anyway, totally a big ass bummer. I hear there was a quite a bit of drinking going on the night before..... another big suprise! Still, such a sad situation, the parents are devastated and a ton of folks around town are really hurt by the stupidity of the loss.