Police charge boy, 10, with shooting cousin dead

US authorities have charged a 10-year-old boy with voluntary manslaughter over the fatal shooting of his younger cousin in March.

US authorities have charged a 10-year-old boy with voluntary manslaughter over the fatal shooting of his younger cousin in March.

Investigators believe the boy intentionally shot six-year-old Darrel Boyd with a shotgun, but the circumstances did not warrant stiffer charges, said Captain Gary Hastings with the Greensboro Police Department in North Carolina.

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