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A four-year-old Detroit boy died when his cousin, also four years, accidentally shot him dead while playing with a rifle she found inside a relative's home.
The children, whose names were not released, were visiting their grandparents' home Thursday afternoon when the four-year-old girl found the gun, Detroit police Officer Nicole Kirkwood said on Friday.
The girl was playing with it when she accidentally shot her cousin in the torso, Kirkwood said.
The boy was pronounced dead after being taken to a nearby hospital, she said, while the girl was not injured.
The grandparents were not home at the time and had left the children in the care of a family friend, Kirkwood said.
The children, whose names were not released, were visiting their grandparents' home Thursday afternoon when the four-year-old girl found the gun, Detroit police Officer Nicole Kirkwood said on Friday.
The girl was playing with it when she accidentally shot her cousin in the torso, Kirkwood said.
The boy was pronounced dead after being taken to a nearby hospital, she said, while the girl was not injured.
The grandparents were not home at the time and had left the children in the care of a family friend, Kirkwood said.