11-Year-Old Boy Shot His Grandma in the Back of the Head After She Asked Him to Clean Up

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Hebert ran after the boy before turning back to administer first aid to his wife, Enriquez said in a statement. That’s when Hebert heard another gunshot.

He “saw the grandson take a few steps and then collapse to the ground,” Enriquez said. The boy had shot himself. Hebert then retrieved the gun and called 911.

The boy’s grandparents have full custody of him, Enriquez said.

Hebert told detectives that he and his wife had “asked their grandson to clean his room and pick up after himself throughout the day, as he was being stubborn about it,” Enriquez said.

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A preliminary investigation did not turn up any “previous signs that the grandson might harm someone or himself and there was no cause for concern prior to this event,” according to the sheriff’s office.

Hebert, whom PEOPLE could not immediately reach, said the gun that was used belonged to him but he didn’t know how his grandson had gotten access to it, authorities said.

“We stood outside and we prayed,” Danny Dillontold AZFamily.com. “It’s just hard. You can’t get your mind around it, you just can’t.”

Walter Venerable echoed the initial police findings, describing couple and their grandson as a “nice family.”

“I knew the kid,” Venerable told AZFamily.com. “I mean, he would ride his bicycle around, play around the neighborhood.”

source: people.com