NORTHEAST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – Investigators have revealed what led to the fatal shooting of a 11-year-old boy in a Northeast Miami-Dade house complicated: he was by chance shot by an older brother.

According to Miami-Dade Police, Shemarion Burse was inside an house unit on the Horizons West complicated together with his 4 siblings, ages 9 to fifteen, Thursday afternoon. No adults had been house.

Detectives mentioned Burse’s 13-year-old brother eliminated a gun from a firearm case in the main bedroom closet. While the older sibling was dealing with the weapon, it went off and struck Burse within the chest.

Speaking with 7News on Friday, the kids’s next-door neighbor described what she heard.

“I heard a noise, after which I heard youngsters screaming, ‘Help,’” said the neighbor, who asked not to be identified.

The neighbor, who was home with her young daughter, said she immediately rushed over to help.

“I called 911. I went inside the house. The baby was there, blood everywhere,” she said.

The neighbor said she tried to resuscitate Burse.

“I proceeded to do CPR, mouth-to-mouth, until he stopped breathing, and that’s once I simply stopped,” she mentioned.

Paramedics airlifted the sufferer to Ryder Trauma Center, the place he was pronounced lifeless.

Speaking with reporters Thursday night, MDPD detective Alvaro Zabaleta confirmed Burse’s mom is a Miami-Dade Corrections officer.

The youngsters’s mom, Tiffany Callaway, described Burse as “the light of our life” on a GoFundMe page that she created. She goes on to jot down, “I can tell you he was an amazing young boy. Loving, playful and always there to put a smile on your face when you needed.”

As family members mourn their loss, their next-door neighbor mentioned she can also be processing the sudden tragedy.

“Blood on the wall, him just laying there, taking his last breath, and it was just traumatic. I was nervous, I was in shock, but I was just trying to help, honestly, because I have a concealed weapon, I have kids, so I know the panic, the scaredness,” she mentioned. “I related to that moment. I just acted like he was my family member.”

Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson Juan Diasgranados launched an announcement that reads partly, “At this time, we would request privacy for the family in an effort to show respect for the family’s needs and allow them to mourn in private.”

Burse’s mom arrange the GoFundMe web page to assist cowl funeral bills. She wrote, “As a mother, I am pleading with you to help me bury my baby. This is the very last thing I can do for him and I’m hoping you all can help.”

Police haven’t specified who the proprietor of the gun is.

No expenses are anticipated to be filed.

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