A five-year-old boy has been shot dead at point-blank range allegedly because he rode his bike into his neighbour's garden. Cannon Hinnant was gunned down in front of his sisters, aged seven and eight, as they played outside their family home in Wilson, North Carolina, on Sunday evening.
Neighbour Darius Sessoms, 25, has been arrested and is accused of pulling the trigger on the little boy at around 5.30pm. Locals claim Sessoms had dinner with Cannon's dad Austin on Friday and had been over at the family's house hours before the killing.
Police are investigating the motive, but according to a GoFundMe page set up for the family by a relative Cannon rode his bike into Sessoms' yard.
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