PHILADELPHIA - A vigil was held on Friday for a 10-year-old girl who police say died after she was accidentally shot with a found gun at a home in Kingsessing last month.
Pink and purple balloons were released at James Finnegan playground in Southwest Philadelphia in honor of Shanyiah Gaines-Miles, who was shot and killed July 1 at a home on the 5500 block of Whitby Avenue.Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department found Gaines-Miles responsive in the second-floor bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head, according to officials.
Investigators say Gaines-Miles was killed when she got her hands on an unsecured firearm.Chiesha Gaines, Shanyiah's mother, said her daughter was with her father at her grandmother’s house where he lived along.