Teen Boy, 13, and Grandma accused after 8-year-old cousin was killed with firearms

A teenager and his grandmother have been accused in connection with the death of an 8-year-old boy, who was shot and killed in Georgia.

A 13-year-old boy and a woman, identified as 49-year-old Knisha Ann Perkins, were arrested on July 15, after the 8-year-old, identified as fridge Powell, was found dead, according to WAB-TV.

The teenager, who was not identified because of his age, shot and killed the fridge at around 11.00 local time on July 11 at their grandmother Perkin’s home in Bainbridge, Ga., Per The outlet. Walb-TV reported That the two boys were cousins.

The boys had stayed in their grandmother’s house when the 13-year-old was allegedly shot the 8-year-old with a 9mm gun, Walb TV reported. It is unclear how the teenager got hold of the shooting coat.

An alternate with Decatur County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene and found that the 8-year-old was on the living room floor and “decided that he was beyond life-saving measures,” reported Walb-Tv and quoted a first incident report from Sheriff’s Office.

The assistant also said in the report that the officers “could not find the firearm because it was not close to the place of the deceased.”

After the incident, the Vice Decatur County Coroner Dewitt Phillip warned families to “secure” their “firearms”, especially when the children are in the house, in an interview with Walb TV.

“The children get hold of them, and they don’t think,” Phillip said. “They watch TV and everyone stands up. We need people to secure them so we don’t have these children dead. Don’t leave them where the children can play with them, because they just don’t understand.”

“I have worked so many of these, and it’s not easy and it never gets easier for us,” Phillip added. “Families have to live with it, but the corons do so too.”

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The teenager was accused of crime and aggravated abuse, and Perkins was accused of three counts of cruelty against children in the second degree and possession of a firearm by a convicted criminal, according to the outlet.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), Decatur County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO) and Decatur County Coroner did not immediately respond to people’s request for comment on the event.