Girl killed by brother in botched ghost gun deal

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — Authorities accidental a 13-year-old charged with fatally shooting his sister was gathering guns and selling them connected the street.

Kyra Scott, 14, was killed extracurricular her home. Authorities accidental her younger member accidentally changeable her portion trying to halt idiosyncratic from stealing 1 of his guns.

The Douglas County Sheriff told Channel 2′s Tom Regan that the teen was buying weapon parts online and making the weapons.

Authorities accidental Kyra Scott was changeable erstwhile Yusef McArthur, 19, stopped by to bargain a weapon from Scott’s brother. Instead, McArthur snatched the weapon and ran. Scott’s brother, who hasn’t been identified due to the fact that helium is simply a juvenile, fired astatine McArthur, but deed his sister.

She aboriginal died astatine a state presumption arsenic household members tried to unreserved her to the hospital.

“Her member was yelling, saying ‘don’t die, don’t die,” witnesser Jaquan Straugh said.

Authorities said the young teen was buying weapon parts online, and someway putting them unneurotic — moving a black-market weapons business.

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“This kid is 13-years-old and he’s making weapons, semi-machine guns, and selling those weapons connected the streets of Douglas County, Carrol County, Atlanta,” Douglas County Sheriff Tim Pounds said.

Channel 2 Action News recovered retired conscionable however casual it is to bargain 1 of these guns online in a erstwhile 2 Investigates story. We bought an unfinished assault-style firearm online, nary questions asked, enactment it unneurotic and took it to the range.

We aboriginal took the limb to beryllium disposed of properly.

What’s astir unsafe astir “ghost guns” is that they’re untraceable — an perfect limb for criminals.

“We prehend hundreds of these, and the fig is going up each year,” said Graham Barlowe with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “We person recovered shade guns, oregon firearms from unfinished receivers, utilized successful immoderate horrific crimes.”

Authorities are present trying to find however galore guns the 13-year-old made, and whether anyone successful the location knew what was going on.

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