5-year-old boy shoots brother to death after finding gun he thinks is a toy in the woods
A 12-year-old boy is dead after his 5-year-old brother found a gun in the woods and accidentally shot him to death when he thought the firearm was a toy. The incident happened on the evening of May 9 when police responded to reports of a juvenile shot in Griffin, Georgia, located in Spalding County just south of Atlanta. Officers responded to the scene and discovered that a 12-year-old boy had sustained a gunshot wound to his chest.
Authorities immediately took the shooting victim to Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital but the boy succumbed to his injuries and died.
Griffin County Police Department Investigation Division allege that earlier that day uniformed patrol officers attempted to carry out a traffic stop on a vehicle in the area when an unknown number of individuals vacated the car and fled into a wooded area where the accidental shooting would take place about two hours later. “As officers searched the area they found a bag of suspected MDMA and recovered it where it was turned in for examination,” said the Griffin Police Department in a statement released on social media. “A weapon was not found at that time.”
“The five-year-old [indicated] that he had found the gun in the wooded area in proximity to where officers had earlier retrieved the suspected bag of drugs and thinking it was a toy, accidentally discharged it striking his brother in the chest,” the statement continued. “Evidence and witness accounts are consistent with this account by the five-year-old.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/year-boy-shoots-brother-death-finding-gun-thinks/story?id=70652881
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