(AP) – Prosecutors say they plan no charges in the case of a
5-year-old Missouri boy who police say accidentally shot and killed his
3-year-old brother.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced Tuesday that the
decision to decline charges in Jermone Green’s death Oct. 27 came after
extensive review found a lack of evidence suggesting anyone was criminally
culpable.
Baker says prosecutors found insufficient evidence to establish anyone in the
town house was criminally reckless or negligent by placing the handgun in an
upper kitchen cabinet over the sink the night before the shooting.
Authorities say the gun was found by the 5-year-old brother the next morning,
when he apparently used a footstool to climb onto the kitchen counter.
Prosecutors say the boy then accidentally shot his brother.
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