{"id":411100,"date":"2018-03-19T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=411100"},"modified":"2018-03-19T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T17:06:19","slug":"mississippi-9-year-old-boy-kills-sister-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/mississippi-9-year-old-boy-kills-sister-video-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi: 9-year-old boy kills sister over video game"},"content":{"rendered":"
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":"
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. They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would not give up the controller. He allegedly shot her from behind, and the bullet entered her brain. A local sheriff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":411103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[4653,4026,4654,7520],"yoast_head":"\n