A 13-year-old girl was shot and killed by her 9-year-old brother Saturday afternoon in Aberdeen after a dispute over a video game controller, Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell has confirmed.
The identities of neither child have been released.
Cantrell said his office received a call at 12:40 p.m. Saturday of a gunshot victim at Dryden Lane.
“I happened to be on another investigation at a road nearby, so I went to the scene,” Cantrell said. “By the time I arrived, deputies were already on the scene and the girl was taken to the hospital in Amory and then airlifted to La Bonheur Hospital in Memphis where she died.”
Cantrell said the 9-year-old confessed to the shooting, which came after they siblings were arguing over the video game controller.
When the sister refused to give up the controller, the boy left the room, came back and shot his sister once in the head, Cantrell said. Nobody seemed to know where the boy got the gun.
“The mother and a friend and some other children were in the house at the time,” Cantrell said. “They were in the kitchen and heard the shot but did not see the shooting.”
Cantrell said after the shooting the grandmother of the children, who lives next door, recovered the handgun and gave it to deputies.
The investigation is ongoing, Cantrell said.
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