Updated: Apr. 20, 2022, 9:03 a.m. | Published: Apr. 19, 2022, 6:23 p.m.
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ByCarol Robinson | crobinson@al.com
The father of an11-year-old boy killed during a turkey huntorganized for a disabled veteran nearly two years ago on Tuesday gave an emotional account of the final moments of his young son’s life.
Troy Ellis, then a fifth grader in Trussville, was killed May 1, 2020, on his father’s hunting land in eastern Jefferson County.
Joshua Stewart Burks, a 37-year-old former U.S. Marine who is an amputee, teacher and coach in south Alabama, is chargedwith reckless manslaughter in Troy’s death.
A grand jury at one pointupped the charge against Burks to capital murderbut it was later…
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Exposing the Big Game 
You organize a bunch of gun-happy-kill-happy ppl with guns, and force your kid to have a weapon and kill … what do you think will happen? jfc, I have sympathy for the child, the rest are all culpable & guilty, absolute lunatics, whatever happened to croquet?