The Sniper news article

Sniper Kills Own Soldier

By: Jasleen Sidhu

In Dublin, Ireland the sun is setting on a June night. A dim light of the moon is shining through pale clouds, showing a faded light on the streets. The Republicans and Free Staters battling in a civil war.

A republican sniper lay in front of the parapet of the roof, spotting the enemy’s sniper on the opposite side and gets shot at twice by the other sniper.

 The first bullet whizzed over his head and pierced a hole through the parapet of the roof. The second bullet got shot into the republican snipers forearm, which was bandaged by him.

The republican sniper said, “My right arm was paining me like a thousand angry knives”.

After the sniper thought that he needed to get rid of the enemy as he needed to report back to the company’s commander to report the kills and his injury.

So the sniper thought of a plan in which he took off his cap and placed it over his rifle to divert the enemy into thinking that that he had killed the sniper.

As soon as the enemy shot at the cap the rifle and cap fell to the ground and enemy’s sniper stood up took look if he had killed. That is where the republican shot the enemy and the enemy fell forward and hit the ground with a thud.

The sniper sees it is safe to go to report to the company’s commander and flips over the enemy’s dead boy to only look at his brother’s face. 

The company’s commander said, “This is a very unfortunate thing to happen so we have given the sniper a permanent release from the army as this is a time where he needs to be with family to grieve and face the guilt.”