MARION COUNTY, Fla. — A 15-year-old girl in Marion County, Florida was arrested for shooting and killing another 14-year-old, the Marion County Sheriff's Office shared in a press release Friday.
The 14-year-old who was killed has been identified by deputies as Marshaun Jones. The teen who's accused of pulling the trigger was a girl who was 14 at the time of the shooting. 10 Tampa Bay is not naming her because she is a minor.
According to an arrest affidavit, the two were in an on-again, off-again relationship. They had gone to a home in the Marion Oaks neighborhood to hang out with several others and smoke marijuana. While there, the affidavit says that people in the group were "flashing multiple firearms in a reckless manner."
Then, around 6 p.m., deputies were called to the home for a shooting. When they arrived, they found Jones slumped over on a couch with a gunshot wound.
Through their investigation, deputies say they determined that the then-14-year-old girl was the one who pulled the trigger. Doorbell camera footage is said to have recorded her from the background saying, "Bro, I didn't know that s**t was loaded," then, "I didn't know it was f**king loaded, bro."
Deputies recovered a 40-caliber Glock from the scene.
"Initially, [the suspect] denied firing the weapon, claiming that it accidentally discharged when someone dropped it," investigators say in a press release. "However, during a subsequent interview with detectives, [the suspect] admitted to hearing Jones pull the trigger, which led her to believe the gun was unloaded."
The girl told investigators Jones had "clicked" the gun from the trigger being pulled, but it didn't go off. That's when she tried to do the same thing "at close range and the firearm went off, shooting the victim in the face," the affadavit reads.
The girl was arrested on Thursday and deputies say she's facing one charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child.
