Authorities say a 9-year-old Raymond boy died after being shot at a home in Copiah County.
Coroner Ellis Stewart identified the victim as Isaac Tervino.
Tervino was with two other children in a bedroom of the home on Highway 18 in the northwest part of the county. [Undersheriff Derrick] Cubit said the two other boys were brothers and Tervino was their cousin. The adults were reportedly in another room of the house eating.
Cubit says 1 of the other children found a gun, picked it up and fired, striking Tervino above the right eyebrow.
He says the victim was airlifted to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson where he died.
Cubit says the shooting appears to be accidental, and no charges have been filed.
In Mississippi it doesn't even take an investigation to determine that it was an accident and no charges are required. No worries about violating anyone's right to due process there - except the dead kid and his traumatized cousins, of course.
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