A 3-year-old boy died Wednesday after accidentally shooting himself at a home in East Point, authorities said.
Police were called to a residence on Hawthorne Way, just south of Langford Parkway, and found the boy suffering from a single gunshot wound.
“The victim was not conscious at the time of the officer’s arrival,” police spokesperson Sgt. James Watkins said in a statement.
The boy was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and later died, police Chief Shawn Buchanan told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was identified Thursday as Jianni Jones by the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The victim’s relatives were home at the time of the incident, and Watkins said responding officers found “an unknown firearm” next to the child.
The investigation is ongoing, Watkins said.
This story has been updated to reflect new information from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office on the correct spelling of the boy’s name.
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