Alexandria Gazette
20 August 1884
FATAL ACCIDENT -- Owen Keys, a bright and promising boy, aged eleven years, and only child of Mr. Jack Keys, of Dumfries, Prince William county, was found dead last Friday within one hundred yards of his home. He went out hunting in the morning, and not returning for dinner, search was made for him when he was found with his gun on one side of the fence and his lifeless body on the other, with one half of his head blown off by the accidental discharge of his gun.
Daily National Republican (DC)
20 August 1884
SAD GUNNING ACCIDENT.
A fatal gunning accident took place near Dumfries, Prince William county, Va., Saturday. A son of Mr. Charles Keys, between 11 and 12 years of age, left his home near the village to shoot. Not returning in the evening some of the family started to find him, and not far from the house found him lying along side of a fence dead with a load of shot in one side of his face, tearing it in a frightful manner, and the gun on the other side of the fence. The position of the body and the gun indicated that he had gotten over the fence first, and in the act of drawing his gun over had struck the cock on the rail, discharging the weapon.
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