Boy, 6, fatally shoots three-year-old brother in play accident

A six-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his three-year-old brother while playing “cops and robbers” with a gun their father told investigators he obtained illegally from a gang member.

Boy, 6, fatally shoots three-year-old brother in play accident

A six-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his three-year-old brother while playing “cops and robbers” with a gun their father told investigators he obtained illegally from a gang member.

Police in Chicago said the two boys were playing when the older one reached on top of a fridge and grabbed the loaded handgun and then accidentally shot three-year-old Eian Santiago in the face.

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