BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. — State investigators are looking into the accidental shooting of a 2-year-old boy by his twin brother in Jackson, Georgia.
Channel 2's Liz Artz spoke with family members who say this is like a never-ending nightmare.
Police went to a home on WW Carr Avenue in Jackson after receiving a call about shots being fired Wednesday night.
The mother, Choice Clay, told police she was in the kitchen tending to groceries while her twin sons played in the living room.
She then heard a single gunshot, according to police. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is still investigating the manner of death but the baby's mother, Choice Clay, believes her child may have accidentally shot himself.
Police said Jayden Jamar Clay was shot near the upper lip with a .45-caliber gun. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Butts County coroner, Jackson Police Chief James Morgan said.
Police said they believe the mother and her two sons were the only people in the house when the shooting occurred.
Clay told investigators she had no idea there was a gun in the house, and the gun did not belong to her.
"We called them Huckle and Juckle," Clay's aunt Penne Lewis said. "It ain't gone be the same without his brother, because when they are separated they get quiet."
Dennis Scott says he lived with Clay and her children for six to eight months.
"Everyday I come home, they grabbed me around each leg," Scott said.
Scott says Clay's six-year-old daughter will take this hard.
"Imani, I know she's going to be wow. She used to take care of them," Scott said.
The medical examiner has ruled the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the head.
No arrests have been made in the case and investigators are not sure who the gun belonged to at this time.
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