US 6yo girl dies after 4yo brother accidentally shoots her in the head

A six-year-old girl has been accidentally shot dead by her younger brother outside their family home.

Millie Drew Kelly - from Dallas, Georgia - was in a car, waiting for her mother to get it started, when her four-year-old brother found a loaded gun and accidentally fired it.

The bullet struck young Millie in the head.

"Detectives determined that the four- year-old male sibling retrieved a handgun from the console of the vehicle and accidently discharged it, striking his six-year-old sister in the head, fatally wounding her," the Paulding County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

After being rushed to an Atlanta area hospital in a critical condition, Kelly passed away two days later and donated her organs.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to support the Kelly family, which also asks people to "go and love others as Millie does".

"Smile a Millie size smile and hug someone with all you got!" the page says.

While police decided not to press any charges related to the death, they issued a public warning around gun safety.

"We want to remind everyone to keep their firearms unloaded and secured in an area away from children to ensure that this never happens again."

Newshub.