A 75-year-old man and his 14-year-old grandson were arrested in connection with the September shooting death of a 13-year-old boy in north Bexar County, Sheriff Javier Salazar said Monday. "I have nothing to say. I don't even know nothing what's going on," Robert Lee Voigt told reporters as he was led by sheriff's deputies to a county vehicle. Salazar said that Voigt had previously purchased an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle for his grandson as a gift. Related: Officials ID 13-year-old boy killed by gunshot to head; authorities still investigating Around 3 p.m. on Sept. 28, the grandson cleaned the weapon and took it to an RV behind the grandfather's home in the 900 block of Pine Eagle Lane, Salazar said. The 14-year-old lived in the RV. Inside the RV was Ignacio Romo and other friends, and at some point, the 14-year-old pointed the rifle at Romo's head and fatally shot him, Salazar said. The 14-year-old called 911 and told dispatchers that Ramos had shot himself in the head, Salazar said. But the investigation revealed that the teen was lying. Voigt is charged with making a firearm accessible to a child involving serious bodily injury or death, a Class A misdemeanor. His grandson is charged with manslaughter and is being held at the Juvenile Detention Center. "The fact that a 13-year-old and 14-year-old were left unsupervised with any weapon. Even more so, with a high capacity mag and very, very powerful ammunition to the point where a 13-year-old who was fine one minute and now is dead and gone the next minute. I think that certainly demonstrates that this is irresponsible gun ownership times 10," Salazar said.
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