In the small community of Quick, West Virginia, a sleepover between two young friends turned into a tragedy in the late hours of Sunday, December 22, 2013. Ten-year-old Payton McKenzie-Bea Thomas, a girl with a tomboy spirit, was spending the night with her nine-year-old male friend at his grandparents' house on Pentacre Road. The two children made a fateful decision to secretly take a. 410 shotgun from the home.
As they were walking down the road together, the firearm discharged. Payton,
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