A 9-year-old boy accidentally shot a 17-year-old Saturday inside an East Germantown neighborhood home, Philadelphia police said. The teen later died at the hospital.
Philadelphia police said the two children were in a room of the East Ashmead Street home before 4:45 p.m. with a BB gun and a handgun. The 9-year-old picked up the handgun, believing it was unloaded, and pulled the trigger.
The 17-year-old boy was shot in the head and died about 90 minutes later at the hospital, police said.
A 7-year-old girl at the scene, on Ashmead Street, suffered an injury to her foot as she ran out of the home after the shooting, police said.
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Homicide investigators were working to figure out what exactly happened, a law enforcement source said.
Police have yet to name anyone involved in the deadly shooting.
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