Legal questions remain after 11-year-old charged with manslaughter in 6-year-old’s shooting death

PETERSBURG, Va. (WWBT) – Police have confirmed the 11-year-old charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of 6-year-old Kaniya Burford-Adkins is her brother.

Burford-Adkins was killed inside her apartment on Navajo Court on March 10.

Manslaughter is not a charge many people would expect to be connected to an 11-year-old, and it raises questions about how prosecutors reached that decision…

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