A nine-year-old boy has died after he and his younger brother were hit by a stray bullet that ripped through their Las Vegas apartment.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, police responded to a shooting last week at the Town & Country Manor apartment complex. Two brothers, nine-year-old SirArmani Clark and six-year-old Honor Tate, were hit while watching SpongeBob SquarePants.
SirArmani died from his injuries. His brother was shot in the leg and is expected to recover.
Family members said they ran into the room where the boys were after hearing gunshots.
"We heard Honor whimper," Justine Tate, mother of the two boys, said. "No sound from Armani. He doesn't say anything. All I can visualize at this point is my baby's head dropping and falling to the side."
Authorities arrested an unidentified neighbor, who is a convicted felon, following the shooting.
"He is out there showing off with a gun, and then pulls the trigger on the gun and kills one kid and hospitalizes another," Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill.
It's unclear what charges the neighbor will face.
"There appears to be a gunshot that came from a neighboring apartment that went through the wall and into their apartment and struck the juvenile," Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jason Johansson.
A GoFundMe page has been created to raise funds for funeral expenses.
"If I could have took that bullet for them, I would have," the boy's mother said. "I would rather them live without a mommy than to lose their life."
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