SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - The father of a 5-year-old girl accidentally shot by her 3-year-old cousin on Thanksgiving says the shooting was an accident.South Fulton police say the gun went off in the Gardens at Camp Creek Apartments on Washington Road.Police say the 3-year-old child found the registered weapon under a sofa cushion and fired it into the chest of his 5-year-old cousin, Khalis Eberhart, killing her."I wasn't careless.
My baby was shot. I didn't do anything wrong. I am going through the pain," father Nathaniel Eberhart told FOX 5's Aungelique Proctor.
Eberhart, who was hospitalized with COVID-19 in September, told FOX 5 the family had just arrived at the apartment when the unthinkable happened."Not even five minutes later we were in.