COLUMBUS, Ohio – A 13-year-old boy has been shot to death and a 16-year-old is charged with his murder.
Police say Jakairion Spikes shot Shaquez Brunner to death while the two were playing with a handgun inside Spikes’s West Side apartment Tuesday afternoon.
Detectives say the two were inside the apartment with two others on Oaks Boulevard in the Aspen Place complex off Hall Road shortly after 2:30 p.m. The teens were passing the handgun around when Spikes shot Brunner one time. Brunner died about an hour later at Doctrors West Hospital.
Police say they determined a 16-year-old was handling the gun when Brunner was shot, and they charged him with a delinquency count of murder.
Spikes told police he accidentally fired the gun.