Nesconset-Boy shoots himself after wrecking truck

March 28, 1962 15 year old James Davis takes family truck out for unauthorized joy ride, loses control when a tire blows and rolls the truck several times on Route 347. Davis abandons the truck and walks two miles back to his house. Davis grabs fathers target shooting rifle, which fires pellets the size of a .22 slug and shot himself outside the house. Davis dropped the rifle near the house and then walked approximately 500 feet up Browns Road to the intersection with 347, and collapsed. Davis’s father Paul, leaves bowling and passes the scene. He is told that an ambulance is needed, but does not realize that it is his son that was on the ground. Paul returns home and calls police.