Samantha and Thomas Wallace listen as their attorneys set a new trial date in Judge Rebecca Stern’s courtroom for Sept. 11, 2012, on criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of their 3-year-old daughter Cameron in 2010.The parents of a 2-year-old girl killed when her 5-year-old stepbrother shot her with dad’s pistol both have suffered equal pain after the tragedy, one of their attorneys said Tuesday.
Thomas, 24, and Samantha Wallace, 27, each face a charge of criminally negligent homicide in their daughter Cameron’s death on July 12, 2010. On Tuesday, Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Rebecca Stern set their trial date for Sept. 11.
Samantha’s court-appointed attorney, Dan Ripper, said after the hearing that the Wallaces had “suffered enough” and deferred questions about their charges to the district attorney’s office.
“What happened here was an accident between one young child and another young child,” Ripper said. “Neither parent believes the other parent did anything wrong.”
Cameron died moments after being shot in the chest with the .45-caliber pistol that Thomas kept loaded on the nightstand.