Six-Year-Old Critical After Being Shot By Her 13 Year Old Brother

The two children were playing a game in Oakland Park, a city in Broward County.

“They were playing hide and go seek. I don’t know how it went down but he shot his sister,” said neighbor Peter Milano, who saw a frantic woman he thought was the children’s aunt running down the block.

“She came up to me ‘Is she ok? Is she ok?’ At the time I didn’t know what she was talking about,” Milano said.

It’s not clear if authorities will pursue criminal charges in the case. Detectives believe the shooting was accidental but were still trying to determine exactly how the teen got access to the gun. The children were home alone at the time of the incident, said Dani Moschella, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.