Little Girl Dies After Her 4-Year-Old Brother Accidentally Shot Her In The Head

Little Girl Dies After Her 4-Year-Old Brother Accidentally Shot Her In The Head

A 6-year-old Georgia girl has died after her 4-year-old brother accidentally shot her in the head in a car outside their home.

The girl, identified as Millie Drew Kelly was shot
Monday evening at their subdivision about a 40-minute drive northwest of
downtown Atlanta, the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said. The
siblings were in a car in their driveway, preparing to go to the boy’s
baseball game, when the vehicle failed to start.

The mother exited to try to find out what was wrong with the car,
authorities said. The boy took a gun from the car’s console and
accidentally fired it while his mother was outside, striking his sister
in the head, the sheriff’s office said. Emergency responders were called
and took her to an Atlanta-area hospital.

Two days later, detectives learned the girl had died, the sheriff’s
office said. Detectives determined that no charges will be filed. “It’s
just a really sad situation,” sheriff’s Sgt. Ashley Henson said Saturday
morning. “Just based on all the evidence and the entire situation, we
felt like charges were not warranted in this particular case.”

Sheriff Gary Gulledge said that his officers’ “hearts break for this
family, and we hope God puts his healing hands around them during this
difficult time.” “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 said in a news release.