00:0016-year-old Jeremiah Uttram was fatally shot by a 15-year-old female relative around 4
00:07p.m. on Friday.
00:09According to reports, the children were playing with a firearm they found in a closed basket
00:14while at another relative's home in Sangre Grandi.
00:18Jeremiah, who is from Lahoketa, was in the area for the holidays.
00:23Police reports suggest that when the children found the gun, they began to play with it
00:28and while in the hands of the teenaged girl, it accidentally fired a bullet, piercing Jeremiah's
00:34head.
00:35The mother was washing right outside and they was inside doing live, no doing live, yes
00:44and some Instagram, what kind of madness, right and it's when she said she hear the
00:51ball in then she run, running inside but that time the little girl when she shoot the ball
00:55she run down the hill and so they run up and down like a madman.
00:59They contacted the police and rushed the boy to hospital but he was pronounced dead around
01:046 p.m.
01:05The victim's grandmother believes the children's use of social media contributed to the tragic
01:11turn of events.
01:12I want to tell them stop the social media, stop this TikTok because that will have my
01:17little grandson there today, that TikTok and that social media because they was inside
01:21Fleming and not the first time they inside Fleming thing there but not with gun but with
01:25the gun thing, as I tell you, I don't know but that is a show off thing, they get the
01:32gun and they set a show off but I don't know nothing about that.
01:36She says other children witnessed the shooting and are all traumatised.
01:40She hopes counselling can be provided as one child has been screaming out and another has
01:46been seen silently crying.
01:48The grandmother hopes that children can learn from this incident that if they see something
01:54they know is dangerous to contact an adult.
01:57They say that if children you get something, you see something, bring it and give it to
02:01your parents.
02:02She says she had no information about the firearm, who it belonged to or how it came
02:07into the children's possession, however she commended the team of officers who responded
02:13to the call on Friday in the way they treated the family of both the victim and the girl
02:18who remained in police custody today.
02:21Cindy Raghubati Kasingh, TV6 News.
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