'Dad, I'm Helping
You'
Gun Kills Boy
A 14-year-old Burbank
boy accidently shot and killed himself Sunday night while rushing to help his
father investigste noises in the backyard of the family's house. He yelled
" Dad, I'm helping you" moments before the pistol he was carrying in a
holster discharged and killed him, police said.
The boy was Glenn Archer
Kellogg. He died of a gunshot wound in the abdomen at St. Joseph Hospital at
9:55 p.m. Police said the boy apparently had taken the .38 caliber Derringer
from its hiding place in the den and was rushing through the kitchen to give it
to his father, when the gun went off. Police could not determine how or why the
gun discharged.
The boy's father, Fermer
Kellogg, was investigating noises in the backyard of the home at 701 E.
Fairmount. The boy, his father and his mother had been watching television in
the den when they heard noises in the yard about 9 o'clock. The father could
find no one there, but noises were heard again about 9:20, police said.
The father said he heard
noises near a gate when he went into the yard from the kitchen door. He yelled
for help. Mrs. Kellogg rushed from the house to aid her husband. She heard a
gunshot from the kitchen as she ran out the door, she said. Her son yelled that
he was helping his father just before the shots sounded, she told police.
The boy was alive when
officers arrived at the house. He reportedly died in the emergency room at the
hospital.
The boy was found on the
floor of the kitchen near the door of the adjoining den. The gun discharged
while it was in the holster, the shot striking the boy at close range, police
said. The youth graduated from Muir Junior High School last month.
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Burbank Deaths
Young Shooting
Victim's Service Scheduled
Funeral services for
Glenn A. Kellogg, 14, who accidentally shot and killed himself while rushig to
help his father check for a prowler, will be held Wednesday.The services are scheduled at 2:30 p.m.
in the Old North Church, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills.
The boy lived at 701 E.
Fairmount and had resided in the city all his life. He was an Eagle Scout and
attended the First Christian Church of Burbank.
Surviving are his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fermer Kellogg; a brother, Loren; and his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Kellogg, all of Burbank. The Rev. Dwaine E. Cerbin of the
First Christian Church will officiate at the services. A colorguard of Boy
Scouts will also attend. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn. From the Burbank Newspaper, July 1968
