A 14-year-old girl from Georgia was killed when her younger brother, who was trying to sell a handgun he had made himself, shot a person who allegedly tried to take the gun without paying, local authorities reported.
A gunshot hit her sister, Kyra Scott, who died when her mother was taking her to a hospital, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Both the shooter, 13, and the man who allegedly tried to steal the gun, Yusef McArthur El, 19, were arrested Monday, Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds reported and have been charged with murder.
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McArthur is also charged with theft.
The two were denied bail on Tuesday.
A police station captain reported Thursday that they still had no lawyers.
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McArthur was booked into the Douglas County Jail, and the 13-year-old remains in a juvenile detention center.
The sheriff said the boy had purchased all the parts needed to make weapons, including semi-automatic weapons, and that he had been selling these pistols irregularly.
On Saturday, two people came to a Douglasville home to buy one of his guns and fled without paying, Pounds said.
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“According to the investigation, the young man was shooting at those who took his gun,” Pounds said, “but hit his sister instead.
His death is very sad ”.
Someone in the home called 911 after the young woman was fatally shot, but police said she died before she could get help.
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Pounds said that
ghost
guns
, as these homemade pistols are known, are of particular concern to law enforcement because they do not have serial numbers and cannot be traced.
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Lt. Jon Mauney said the investigation is continuing and additional charges may be filed.
Detectives are waiting to know how many guns the 13-year-old man made and whether others in the home knew what he was doing, Mauney said.
The deceased young woman was a student at Chapel Hill High School, where grief counselors were brought in to assist students and staff members.
He had previously attended Lithia Springs High School, Mauney said.
