Family, Police Identify 13-Year-Old Boy Killed In Eagan
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Family members and police have identified the 13-year-old boy whose death investigators have termed "suspicious."
Paramedics and police were called to a home on Silver Bell Circle just after 11 a.m. on Sunday. Officers say the victim had been home with his 15-year-old brother and 11-year-old sister.
They say the older brother called police and said his little brother was bleeding and couldn't talk or move.
The older brother first told police his brother was running with a knife and fell, accidentally stabbing himself. But when police arrived, the boy's older brother admitted that he had lied to dispatchers, and had in fact accidentally shot his brother.
First responders tried to save the boy but were unable to revive him.
On Monday, family members confirmed to WCCO that the boy who was killed was Suhayb Hassan. He was a student at Black Hawk Middle School in Eagan.
Police said that Hassan's brother said they were playing "Cops and Robbers" with their father's 9mm handgun, and didn't think that it was loaded.
Police said that the incident "appears to be a horrible accident."
"Only one round was fired, and it hit the victim in the chest," Eagan Police spokesperson Desiree Schroepher said.