4-Year-Old Boy Shoots, Kills 6-Year-Old Sister in Georgia: Officials

Jack Phillips
By Jack Phillips
April 12, 2019US News
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4-Year-Old Boy Shoots, Kills 6-Year-Old Sister in Georgia: Officials
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A 6-year-old Georgia girl was slain after her younger brother accidentally discharged a gun, shooting her, said police.

The mother of the girl, who was identified as Millie Drew Kelly, was trying to transport them in a car, but it wouldn’t start.

Their mother then got out to see what the problem was, and somehow the boy grabbed a handgun, Paulding County sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ashley Henson told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The little girl was shot in the head and taken to a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta location with serious injuries, where she later died.

Posted by AJC on Thursday, April 11, 2019

The girl was then shot. She was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta location with serious injuries before she was pronounced dead, officials said.

Detectives spoke to the mother and suspect the handgun was located in the center console of the car.

The boy, who was not named, apparently grabbed it and discharged it by accident, officials told the newspaper.

UPDATE: 6 Year Old Girl Killed in Accidental Shooting (Paulding County, GA) On Wednesday April 10, 2019 Detectives…

Posted by Paulding County Sheriff on Thursday, April 11, 2019

“Our hearts break for this family and we hope God puts his healing hands around them during this difficult time,” Sheriff Gary Gulledge said in a statement posted to Facebook on April 11.

Henson said no charges are pending in the case.

“We want to remind everyone to keep their firearms unloaded and secured in an area away from children to ensure that this never happens again,” Gulledge noted in a Facebook post.

Other details about the case are not clear.

Accidental Shooting Deaths Halved

Accidental firearm discharges killed 486 people in 2017, down more than 50 percent since 1997, according to mortality data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Meanwhile, gun sales increased more than 80 percent between 1999 and 2017, according to The DataFace, a San Francisco data analysis company, which based its estimates on FBI background check data.

There appears to be a mix of factors behind the phenomenon.

Epoch Times reporter Petr Svab contributed to this report.

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