Sheriff’s officials say an 11-year-old Tennessee boy shot and killed an 8-year-old.
WBIR reports that the young girl was found on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest. She was taken to Morristown-Hamblen Hospital, where she was pronounced dead
Officials say the young girl’s next-door neighbor, a fifth grader at White Pine Elementary School, used his father’s 12-gauge single-shot shotgun to shoot and kill the girl from inside his house. The victim was in third grade at the same school.
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Neighbors tell WBIR that the two were fighting over a puppy. The victim has not been named officially, but neighbors identified her as Maykayla Dyer.
The boy has been charged with juvenile first-degree murder.
