According to investigators, the children were left home alone with two loaded guns.
Critics of the charges say the 12-year-old is not to blame and that there are other ways to help the child other than putting him through the system. Krasner indicated that it was a safety issue. One assumption is that if a juvenile is charged, the juvenile is in custody. Well that s not necessarily true. Another assumption is that if a juvenile is charged the purpose is to convict. That is often not true at all. The purpose is to instead provide services to save the life of the child, said Krasner.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) The brother of a 9-year-old girl who was accidentally shot and killed in Philadelphia last week is now facing charges, Action News has learned.
The incident happened on January 20 around 11 a.m. inside a home on the 2300 block of Bouvier Street.
Police say officers found the girl, 9-year-old Nyssa Davis, lying in a back bedroom suffering from a gunshot wound to the right side of her head.
Nyssa Davis, 9, was killed in an accidental shooting on January 20 inside a home on the 2300 block of Bouvier Street.
According to the Philadelphia District Attorney s Office, at the time of the shooting, the girl s brother and 5-year-old cousin were inside the residence with no adult supervision.