The family of 14-year-old Seven Shirley is mourning what they describe as an unimaginable tragedy after they say he died by suicide following the accidental shooting of his sister at a Stockbridge home.

According to the family, Seven accidentally shot his sister, Lyric, in the neck Wednesday afternoon before taking his own life.

“Just that fast that boy had made the decision to kill himself,” said Seven’s grandmother, Sharon Smith. “He probably sat up there and thought, ‘I’m finna go to jail, they’re going to ridicule me, everybody is going to be doing this and that and this, and this and that, and he couldn’t take it.'”

Smith said she has raised Seven since he was 11 months old.

“His grandmama, there wasn’t nothing in this world he wouldn’t do for me,” Smith said. “He would say, ‘Grandmama sit down in this chair right here,’ and he would push me wherever. I’d be so glad because I’d be hurting so bad. He’d push me wherever I wanted to go.”

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