A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after allegedly being shot by her nine-year-old brother over a video game, police say.<\/p>\n
They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would not give up the controller.<\/p>\n
He allegedly shot her from behind, and the bullet entered her brain.<\/p>\n
A local sheriff announced on Sunday that the teen had died of her injuries in a Memphis hospital. It was unclear how the boy obtained the gun.<\/p>\n
It is also unclear what consequences the nine-year-old will face.<\/p>\n
“I assume he’s seen this on video games or TV. I don’t know if he knew exactly what this would do. I can’t answer that. I do know it’s a tragedy.”<\/p>\n
The children’s mother was in another room, feeding other children lunch at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n
Police are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting, including how the weapon – a .25 calibre handgun – was accessed.<\/p>\n
“This is all new ground for us, we’ve never dealt with a kid shooting a kid at age nine,” Sheriff Cantrell told local press.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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