DETROIT – A 14-year-old boy has died after a gun being held by a 13-year-old companion discharged in the yard of a home on Detroit's east side, Detroit police said.
The older boy was shot Tuesday night in a yard behind an abandoned home near Radnor Street and Frankfort Avenue, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
“Another senseless death of a 14-year-old young man,” Police Chief James Craig said. “We heard one account that it may have been over a dispute. Not certain. It could have been that someone had possession of a gun and it was an accidental shooting.”
Police are trying to determine who owns the gun, which was recovered at the scene.