Police: No charges in girl's pellet gun death

By Alexis Stevens

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

No charges will be filed in the death of a 6-year-old Fayette County girl who was shot with a pellet gun last week, police said Tuesday.

The girl, whose name was not released, died after her older brother accidentally shot her in the throat, according to a police report released Tuesday.

The girl was shot in her Peachtree City home Friday afternoon, according to police. She later died after being transported to Piedmont Fayette Hospital.

One of the girl's two older brothers told police he did not know the pellet gun was loaded when he fired it across a room, the police report states. After the boy shot his sister, he threw the gun out the window, police said.

The girl was downstairs on the kitchen floor when emergency responders arrived at the home.

Investigators also found other guns in the home, including two air-soft rifles and two pistols, along with CO2 cartridges, pellets and BBs, police said.

"From the upstairs window of the playroom it appeared that the window screen had been permanently removed to allow the discharge of the weapons into the tree line on the property," the police report states. "Closer inspection of the trees and surrounding area confirmed this."