The 9mm Smith & Wesson was found “without a holster, full magazine, with a round chambered,” according to a DeKalb arrest warrant. The incident report said the gun belonged to the other children’s mother, who is in the military.
The children took the gun to a bedroom, where Jada told the other child to pull the trigger, the babysitter told police.
During the investigation, the other 5-year-old showed police where she and Jada had found the weapon, the incident report said.
“She grabbed my hand and led me down the hall into her parents’ room and advised she located it on the floor on top of a small ammo box beside the bed,” the officer wrote in the report.
The young girl told investigators she didn’t know there were bullets in it.
The next day, police arrested 36-year-old Chad Brooks Sr., the father of the other children, in connection with the shooting. He is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children after police said in his arrest warrant that he left the handgun unattended.
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