A man is said to have killed a one-year-old girl and a nine-year-old boy with a gun in Mississippi, United States, on Monday.
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The motive that would have driven the 25-year-old to this act is still unknown.
The event took place at around two in the morning at an apartment in the town of Jonestown.
Melrose Haile, the girl’s grandmother, said in an interview with CNN that she was devastated.
“She was my granddaughter, she was only a year and a half and now she’s gone. There is nothing in the world that can make this pain go away,” she said.
The suspect faces two counts of murder and two counts of assault and assault.