Teenager arrested after shooting stepbrother during an argument about clothes, police say

A 16-year-old Miami boy faces multiple charges after he shot his younger stepbrother during an argument over clothing, according to reports.

The alleged incident unfolded Tuesday afternoon inside the brothers’ home in the Wynwood neighborhood. Police said that the 13-year-old victim returned home from school to find his older stepbrother, Landon Lumpkin, wearing his clothes.

When the younger brother demanded that Lumpkin remove them, Lumpkin responded by pointing what he allegedly intended to be a scare-inducing gun at him. However, the weapon accidentally fired, sending a bullet into the 13-year-old’s left shoulder, according to a police report reviewed by Local 10…

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