6-yr-old boy fatally shot in the chest by mother's drunk boyfriend who thought shotgun was not loaded

32-year-old Benjamin Wesley Goodson didn't know the old shotgun still worked when he pointed it at six-year-old Eugene Ryder Stamey and pulled the trigger
PUBLISHED NOV 8, 2018

A six-year-old boy was shot to death by his mother's live-in boyfriend while playing "zombies" with the boy after getting drunk.

The incident involving the death of six-year-old Eugene Ryder Stamey, which occurred in Hephzibah, Georgia, on the southern outskirts of Augusta, has lead to the arrest of 32-year-old Benjamin Wesley Goodson, who has been charged with murder.

According to WRDW, the boy's mother said she was washing her hair in the shower when she heard a shotgun go off. She revealed that she had been living with Goodson for a year. The shooter was allegedly playing "zombies" with young Ryder and another eight-year-old boy after having a beer and a shot, the mother said.

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