HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A 17-year-old has been charged in connection to the death of his teenage brother after a shooting at a home in the Tomball area early Monday morning, according to the sheriff.
The video above is from a preliminary report.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting happened at a house in the 19923 block of Stone Creek Court in the Stone Lake subdivision when the brothers’ parents weren’t home.
When deputies arrived at the scene, they found a 16-year-old boy dead at the scene with a gunshot wound on his chest.
According to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, several teenagers were in a barn overnight on the property where the teens lived.
Originally, it was believed that the teens were handling a pistol when it was discharged unintentionally. HCSO Homicide investigators determined the teens had been drinking and handling several firearms.
In an update, the sheriff’s office said that the victim’s brother, Rhyder Tettleton, stated he thought the pistol was unloaded when he pointed it and intentionally pulled the trigger.
Gonzalez said a murder charge was accepted initially but, upon further review, was changed to manslaughter.
Tettleton was paced into the Harris County Jail.
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