9-Year-Old Nev. Boy Is Killed by Stray Bullet While Home Watching 'SpongeBob SquarePants'

SirAmani Clark.Photo: GoFundMe

Two young boys were shot when a stray bullet ripped through the wall of their Las Vegas Valley apartment on Tuesday night — and one of them, a 9-year-old, has died from his injuries.

According to theLas Vegas Review-Journal, police responded to the Town & Country Manor apartment complex shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday after receiving reports of a shooting. The two boys were struck while watching the cartoonSpongeBob SquarePants.

Nine-year-old SirArmani Clark was killed. His 6-year-old brother, Honor Tate, was shot in the leg. Honor is expected to recover.

After hearing the gunshots, the boys' family members came running from the next room.

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“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 told theReview-Journal.

“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 told theReview-Journal.

It’s unclear what charges the neighbor will face.

The shooting has devastated the boys' family. They have created aGoFundMeto raise money for funeral expenses.

“If I could have took that bullet for them, I would have,” Justine Tate told Fox 5. “I would rather them live without a mommy than to lose their life.”

source: people.com