QUITE how he got hold of the bolt action rifle remains a mystery, but one thing is clear the five-year-old boy has killed his his four-year-old brother with a bullet to the stomach.
Cops in Victoria County, TX said the pair were playing with the gun while their parents were home when the gun went off.
The boy's mother and father called 911 and frantically drove their son to meet paramedics at a nearby grocery store in rural Telferner, but by the time he got to hospital he was gone.
Sheriff T. Michael O'Connor said the couple had two other children, who were both older, but declined to release the family's name until the autopsy was concluded.
He said the scene was so traumatic they were providing counselling for the first responders as well as the family.
An police source said: "This is one of the saddest cases anyone here has ever had to deal with. Quite why the children were left alone with a rifle we don't know, but we will find out.
"It remains to be seen whether charges will be brought, we're still in the preliminary stages of the investigation."
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