Seven-year-old Jermon Perry was playing video games in an upstairs bedroom at his family’s duplex in south St. Louis on Saturday when a single gunshot hit him in the head. The fatal shot was fired by his 5-year-old brother, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Monday. “[His mother] normally hides candy from them so they don’t go in there and eat it all,” Erica Jones, Lawson’s god-sister, told the paper. “The youngest one found the firearm in the room and brought it in the room and was playing with it,” Jones added to KSDK. “He thought it was a toy and he shot, and once he shot, it struck Jermon in the side of the head.”

Source: thestar April 03, 2018 13:41 UTC