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Posted: Sat 9:09 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Reporter: Associated Press Email
Updated: Sat 10:38 PM, Jun 02, 2012
11 Year Old Fatally Shot by Her Brother
Dalton, GA - June 2, 2012
A Georgia sheriff says an 11-year-old girl was fatally shot by her brother as he was playing with a loaded handgun.
The Associated Press reports Cassie Culpepper was shot in the face late Friday as she rode with her brother and other children in the back of a pickup truck.
Whitfield Sheriff Scott Chitwood says the girl's 12-year-old brother told investigators he had sneaked a pistol with him and thought it was unloaded. Chitwood says the boy pointed the gun at his sister and pulled the trigger to scare her. Their mother was driving the truck.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is assisting the sheriff. Agent Jerry Scott says the death appears to be a "tragic accident."
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