Girl fatally shoots 12-year-old friend while handling pistol

Girl fatally shoots 12-year-old friend while handling pistol

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By KBCI Web Staff

MARSING, Idaho -- A Homedale boy has died after being shot by a friend in what investigators say was an accident.

The Ada County Coroner identified the boy as 12-year-old Marcos Jaramillo.

Owyhee County Sheriff Daryl Crandall said Marcos was at a home in Marsing with a 14-year-old girl who was handling a pistol Sunday afternoon.

Crandall said the girl apparently mishandled the weapon and shot Marcos in the head about 2:15 p.m.

The boy was airlifted to St. Alphonsus in Boise and died late Monday night.

Crandall said the two children are friends attended Homedale Middle School.

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