Posted on 07/25/2026 4:40:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A Georgia teenager who was “like a nephew” to Grammy-winning rapper 21 Savage reportedly shot his little sister by accident before taking his own life, according to local news station 11Alive.
Seven Shirley, 14, died by suicide after allegedly shooting his 12-year-old sister, Lyric, in the neck Wednesday afternoon in a heartbreaking accident at a home in Stockbridge, southeast of Atlanta, grieving relatives told the outlet.
“Just that fast that boy had made the decision to kill himself,” Seven’s grandmother, Sharon Smith, told the news outlet through tears.
“He probably sat up there and thought, ‘I’m finna go to jail, they’re going to ridicule me, everybody is going to be doing this and that and this … and he couldn’t take it.'”
Smith, who said she raised Seven from when he was 11 months old, described him as a loving grandson who doted on her every day.
“There wasn’t nothing in this world he wouldn’t do for me,” she said.
The family has no idea what the teen was doing with the gun, Smith told the outlet.
“We don’t know. We don’t know,” she said. “Something needs to be done about that person who sold that gun because if he would have never bought that gun, this would have never happened.”
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“Something needs to be done about that person who sold that gun because if he would have never bought that gun, this would have never happened.”
The family has no idea what the teen was doing with the gun, Smith told the outlet.
“We don’t know. We don’t know,” she said. “Something needs to be done about that person who sold that gun because if he would have never bought that gun, this would have never happened.”
Where does a 14 year old “buy” a gun? and who would sell a gun to a 14 year old?
Why is a grandmother raising this kid? Are his parents dead or in jail?
“Something needs to be done about that person who sold that gun because if he would have never bought that gun, this would have never happened.”
DANG that gun!
Sounds like Grams didn’t work too hard on “impulse control”...
Pretty sure he didn't get it through an FFL source.
Always the victim, never talking responsibility.
didnt click on link, did the sister die? or she happened to survive the neck injury?
this is sad in so many ways.
Grandma raising kid (why?), and she is clueless he had a gun? wants to blame the gun?
Parents didnt care enough to know, or maybe not even in the picture?
sister hurt, or dead?
kid influenced by whatever, to buy a gun (how’d he have the money?), then made multiple more bad choices
Prayers up for recovery of the 12-year old sister.
WHERE DID THE KID GET THE $$$$$$$$$$$ FOR THE GUN????
Reminds me of “It’s a sad world when a mother has to worry about her child being killed just for robbing a liquor store.
So, If you grew up listening to country songs by people like Marty Robbins, song like El Paso, Big Iron, The Night They Hanged Me, or Johnny Cash or numerous country singers. Then you’re going to become a criminal?
Tragic. Your average 14 year old doesn’t have a nickel’s worth of common sense. Guns are supposed to be kept locked up, so things like this won’t happen. They convicted of murder, the dad who bought a young school shooter his first rifle. Do you suppose the same thing will happen to Granny for not locking up the gun? Yeah, me neither.
I know he’s dead, but the 14 year old bears no responsibility for going out and buying an illegal gun? Grandma, be honest with yourself.
CC
Do they ever say the sister is dead? I assume she’s dead.
So he shot and killed his sister, and the relative says he
probably killed himself because he’d go to jail and people would be criticizing him.
Not that he felt terrible he shot his sister.
Sadly I think they are lying about not knowing where the gun came from.
Trying to be a thug like “uncle rapper”?
Was the gun sold or was it possibly stolen? Then the question becomes how did he get the ammo? Or was the Gun loaded when he got his hands on it.
I was raised in the country and was around guns from the BB, to a 22 riffle and then a 16 gauge shotgun. And others as I grew up into adulthood.
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