No Charges In Toddler Shooting

Charges will not be filed in the death of a 3 year old boy shot in the head by his 9 year old brother.

Investigators say Elijah Porter was killed around 9 pm Wednesday at the family's home on McArthur Street in the Maysville Community.

Corporal Charles Bagsby, a spokesperson for the Mobile Police Department, says the children's mother was at work and their father was at the store when the shooting happened. The kids were home with their 15 year old sister.

Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson says the gun belonged to the children's mother, but it was stored high enough that she thought the kids could not reach it. Tyson says the mother also stored the gun separate from the bullets and told police she did not know there was one bullet left loaded.

According to police, the 9 year old was playing with the handgun when he pointed it at his brother and pulled the trigger. The toddler was rushed to the University of South Alabama Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

A steady stream of friends and family members visited the grieving parents Thursday morning. One neighbor described the brothers as inseparable, saying where one went the other followed.

The name of the 9 year old child has not been released.