8-Year-Old Shoots Elderly Grandmother With Her Gun After Playing Video Game

The shooting is being described as intentional.

Marie Smothers was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head in a mobile home park in Slaughter, Louisiana, the East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. Slaughter is about 20 miles north of Baton Rouge.

Authorities identified the woman as the boy’s “caregiver,” without stating whether she is a relative. But CNN affiliate WBRZ reported that the woman was the boy’s grandmother.

Smothers was 87, public records show…

Although the boy initially told investigators that he accidentally shot the woman while playing with a firearm, the probe led authorities to believe he “intentionally shot Mrs. Smothers in the back of the head as she sat in her living room watching television,” the sheriff’s department statement said.

The boy won’t face charges. Under Louisiana law, a child under 10 is exempt from criminal responsibility.

“We have a child who does not know the impact of the consequences of the act he committed,” Sclynski Legier, a lawyer, told CNN affiliate WAFB. “He truly doesn’t understand that.”

By: MR. RIGHT