TUPELO, Miss. (The Clarion Ledger) — A 13-year-old girl is dead in Monroe County after authorities say she was shot Saturday by her 9-year-old brother.

Sheriff Cecil Cantrell said the girl would not give up a video game controller when her brother wanted it.

Cantrell said she was shot in the back of the head with a .25 caliber handgun, and that the bullet went through her brain.

The girl was rushed to Le Bonheur’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis where she died Sunday at 6:45 p.m.

1 Timothy 3:1-2 states that in the last days, “men shall be lovers of their own selves.”

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