A 9-year-old wanted a video game controller from his sister — so he shot her, police say

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A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after being shot by her 9-year-old brother over a fight about video games, police say.

The shooting took place Saturday about 12:30 p.m. at a home in northeast Mississippi, Monroe County Sheriff Cecil Cantrell told The Washington Post on Monday.

Cantrell, who happened to be in the area and was the first officer to respond, said he arrived to a scene he’ll never forget.

The siblings had been in a bedroom playing a video game, while adults were elsewhere in the home, Cantrell said, citing his interviews with the family, including with the 9-year-old boy.

At some point, the boy wanted the video game controller from his sister but she wouldn’t give it to him, Cantrell said.

“The little boy — he managed to get a gun out of a nightstand there in the room there, and he just came over and shot her,” Cantrell said. “I’ve been in law enforcement 30-some-odd years, and I’ve never dealt with anything quite like this. Not with children.”

The 13-year-old was taken to a hospital in Amory, Miss., a city in Monroe County, then flown to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, about 130 miles away, the sheriff said.