UPSON COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia 19-year-old was found shot to death in Upson County on Thursday evening, deputies say.
Conner Walker was found with a gunshot wound to the head in an outbuilding at a home on Martin Luther King Drive. He was pronounced dead.
Upson County Sheriff Dan Kilgore says he had been shot with his own AR-15-style rifle.
The sheriff says Walker, a 14-year-old and another man were in the building with the gun.
The 14-year-old was handling the gun without clearing the chamber, and it went off while pointed toward Walker.
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The boy is being held in connection with the shooting, the sheriff said. His identity has not been released.
Walker’s grandmother described him as a “brilliant kid” in an online fundraiser.
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She said that Walker’s father, a Marine, was killed in action while serving in Iraq in 2007 when Walker was just a few months old.
Click here to donate to a GoFundMe that will help the family with funeral costs.
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