James Lobue Jr. was 15, a runaway from Bismarck, North Dakota, when he was shot in an upstairs apartment on Kepler Drive in northeast Las Vegas around 4:42 p.m. on September 2, 2024. He died at UMC.

He'd stayed there the night before with a friend, and several other teenagers were in the apartment. Police say it started as "play-fighting." Eighteen-year-old Browdy Lee Shaffer had brought a gun and had been showing it off on a video call. After the shot, police say Shaffer first tried to help James, then left with his brother before police arrived. He was arrested two days later on open murder with a deadly weapon.

A 15-year-old far from home, and a gun treated like a toy. If you're a parent, have you talked with your kids about what to do when someone pulls out a gun just to show it off?