Chicago: A simple kiddish prank over a puppy led an 11-year-old boy to shoot and kill his neighbour, who is eight-year-old in US state of Tennessee, the girl’s grieving mother said.
Latasha Dyer said her daughter was playing outside when the neighbour asked to see the puppy. She says the girl, McKayla, told the boy “no,” and the boy then shot her.
Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig says, the accused used his father’s 12-gauge shotgun to kill McKayla from inside his house. Deputies called to the scene Saturday in White Pine found McKayla on the ground with a chest wound. She was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Dyer told the station that McKayla “was a mommy’s girl” who “could always make you smile.”
