Five-year-old boy accidentally shoots, kills sister

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 12:31 in Health & Medicine

A 5-year-old Kentucky boy who received a .22-caliber rifle as a gift accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister on Tuesday, according to state police.The toddler was shot at just after 1 p.m. local time on Lawson’s Bottom Road in Cumberland County, police said. The girl was taken to Cumberland County Hospital and later pronounced dead.The mother of the two children was at home at the time ...    

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