The 13-year-old young boy and the grandmother who were charged after the 8-year-old cousin was killed with a firearm

A teenager and his grandmother were charged with the death of an 8-year-old boy who was shot in Georgia.

A 13-year-old boy and a woman who was identified as a 49-year-old Knisha Ann Perkins were arrested on July 15, after the 8-year-old, who was identified as Kylen Powell, was found dead according to Walb-TV.

The teenager, who was not identified due to his age, was on July 11th in the house of her grandmother Perkins in Bainbridge, Georgia, at 11 p.m. in Bainbridge, GA, at 11 p.m. so as not to kill Kylen. Walb-TV reported that the two young cousins were.

The boys were used to their grandmother's house when the 13-year-old shot the 8-year-old in the face with a 9mm pistol, reported Walb TV. It is unclear how the teenager hit the firearm.

A member of the Sheriff office of the Decatur County arrived on site and found the 8-year-old on the floor of the living room and found that he went beyond life-saving measures, Walb-TV reported, citing a first incident report by the sheriff office.

The deputy also said in the report that the officials could not “locate the firearm because they were not near the deceased place”.

After the incident, the deputy medical doctor Dewitt Phillip warned the families to “secure” their “firearms”, especially when children in the house are in the house.

“Children get them and they don't think,” said Phillip. “They see away and everyone gets up. We need people who secure them so that we do not make these children dead. Don't let them play with them because they just don't understand.”

“I worked so many of them and it is not easy and it never gets easier for us,” added Phillip. “The families have to live with it, but the forensic doctors do it too.”

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The teenager was charged with murder and serious physical injury, and Perkins was charged by a convicted criminal due to three cases of cruelty to children in the second degree and the possession of a firearm.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), the Sheriff office of the Decatur County (DCSO) and the forensic doctor of Decatur County did not immediately respond to the request of the people for a comment on the incident.