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Gun show shooting still under investigation

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Posted 11:14AM on Tuesday 16th July 2002 ( 22 years ago )
NORCROSS - Gwinnett County police continue to investigate the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old Alabama boy who was at a gun show with his father. <br> <br> Stephen Bray King -- of Prattville, Alabama -- died Monday at Scottish Rite Children&#39;s Hospital in Atlanta. <br> <br> A single bullet struck Stephen in his right eye and lodged in his brain on Sunday at the Eastman Gun Show in Norcross. <br> <br> It is not clear how the shooting happened. Authorities have not said whose gun was involved. <br> <br> The boy&#39;s father -- 38-year-old Anthony Grant -- said his son was standing on his left side and facing a vendor&#39;s counter when the gun was fired. They were looking at holsters when he heard the shot. <br> <br> Stephen was a rising freshman at Prattville High School in Prattville near Montgomery. <br> <br> Grant said he and his son -- who lives with his mother -- were in Atlanta for a weekend outing.

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