Grandmother and male friend are arrested after a young child is killed playing with a gun at a campsite in Georgia
A GRANDMOTHER and a man have been arrested after a little girl shot herself to death while playing with a pistol at a campsite in Georgia. Kimberly Anne Robert, 47, and James Phillip Lillie, 50, were arrested on Sunday in connection with the tragic death, according to Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap. Deputies raced to […]
A GRANDMOTHER and a man have been arrested after a little girl shot herself to death while playing with a pistol at a campsite in Georgia.
Kimberly Anne Robert, 47, and James Phillip Lillie, 50, were arrested on Sunday in connection with the tragic death, according to Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap.
Deputies raced to the campsite on Chitwood Cove, in the Wilderness Camp Road area just after 8:30pm on Saturday after receiving calls about a young child shot, Millsap told WXIA.
People at the campsite took the child from the area before officers arrived, and they were met by police and emergency medical crews on another road, according to a release from county officials.
The girl was pronounced dead at a local hospital, Bartow sheriff’s spokesman Major Jonathan Rogers told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Investigators determined the child shot herself while playing with a pistol at the campsite, according to AJC.
Following an initial probe, cops cuffed Roberts and Lillie before hauling them off to Bartow County Jail.
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Roberts is the child’s grandmother, and Lillie has no known relationship to the child, WXIA reported.
Roberts is being held on a felony probation violation, while Lillie was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, the sheriff’s office said.
Both are expected to face additional charges and the investigation is ongoing, according to deputies.