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GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - A 5-year-old girl has been killed and a woman
wounded in Grants Pass after an assault rifle went off and shot them
in an upstairs room of an apartment, police said.

A 30-year-old transient who was visiting the apartment was arraigned
Friday on charges of manslaughter, assault and illegal possession of a
machine gun, Chief Deputy District Attorney Lisa Turner said. The
manslaughter charge alleges the killing was reckless, not intentional.

Police said Jon Andrew Meyer Jr. was arrested Thursday night without
incident at the scene.

The name of his court-appointed attorney was not immediately
available.

Bail was set at $250,000 and no pleas were entered, Turner said.

The district attorney's information charging Meyer identified the girl
who was killed as Alyssa Bobbit, and the woman who was wounded as
Karen Hancock.

Turner said she could not divulge the make and model of the rifle, who
owned it, or whether it was manufactured as a fully automatic weapon
or modified later.

Police said Meyer was in a downstairs room of the apartment when the
rifle went off there, and the girl and the woman were upstairs in the
same apartment. The woman was not related to the girl, whose mother
was also in the apartment, but not shot, Turner said.

A neighbor, Chris Mehl, told The Grants Pass Daily Courier that he
heard a gunshot, then a rapid firing.

When he left his house, he said, he saw the girl on the sidewalk. It
appeared she'd been struck in the head, and he tried to stop the
blood, he said.

There was no immediate explanation for how the girl got from the
apartment to the sidewalk.

Police said she was taken to the hospital in Grants Pass but died a
short time later. They said the woman, 44, was shot in the torso and
hospitalized in stable condition.