As mom was being choked, 12-year-old son got gun. His sister pulled the trigger, cops say

As mom was being choked, 12-year-old son got gun. His sister pulled the trigger, cops say

Two North Carolina children partnered to kill their mom’s abusive boyfriend, after they found him strangling their mother, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s office. Steven Kelley died shortly after midnight on Aug. 8, after his girlfriend’s 12-year-old son got a gun and handed it to his 15-year-old sister, who pulled the trigger, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office. Two bullets hit 46-year-old Kelley in the chest as he beat Chandra Nierman, the statement said. Another of Nierman’s children, a 16-year-old girl, was grazed by a bullet fragment as she stood nearby, police said in the release. The 911 call came in at 12:11 a.m., from the family’s home on Lakeview Drive ... Read More