5-year-old shoots brother to death with a gun he thought was toy
A 5-year-old accidentally killed his 12-year-old brother on after shooting him with an abandoned gun he found in the woods behind their home, police said.
The child told officials he found the weapon and, thinking it was a toy, accidentally shot his brother in the chest, the police department in Griffin, Georgia, said in a news release.
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His brother was transported to a hospital where he died from his injuries.Earlier that day, Griffin police said, officers attempted a traffic stop in the area, but three men were able to escape the vehicle and fled “behind houses in close proximity to where this shooting occurred.
“Police searched the area after the men fled and found a bag suspected to contain MDMA, but they found no weapons at the time.”The children were out here peacefully playing in the backyard on the trampoline,” neighbor Tom Whitehead, who owns an auto body shop in front of the family’s home, told CNN affiliate WGCL.
