A 17-year-old and a 15-year-old have been charged with murder in last week's shooting that claimed the life of Nizzel George in north Minneapolis. According to a criminal complaint, the 17-year-old told a witness that he fired at the house where the young boy was sleeping last Tuesday.

Police are seeking the killer of a 5-year-old boy who was shot while sleeping on a couch in a north Minneapolis home Tuesday morning. The gunman sprayed the house with bullets and fled, police say. It was exactly six months to the day that 3-year-old Terrell Mayes Jr. was shot by a bullet that was fired into his home.

A vigil for 5-year-old shooting victim Nizzel George drew a large crowd, raw emotions and unanswered questions Saturday afternoon in the Twin Cities. The boy died Tuesday as he was sleeping on his grandmother's couch in North Minneapolis when her house was riddled with bullets. Two teen boys have been arrested in connection with the shooting.

A grand jury has indicted a Minneapolis teen on a charge of first-degree murder in the June death of the 5-year-old boy shot as he slept on his grandmother's couch. If Stephon Shannon, 17, is found guilty of the charge, his automatic sentence would be life in prison without hope of release.

Family of Terrell Mayes remember the three-year-old as an energetic child who liked to watch Spongebob Squarepants cartoons. But those speaking at his funeral Wednesday also say he's another reason to halt violence.

Seventeen-year-old Stephon Shannon is charged with aiding and abetting murder in connection with the death of Nizzel George, 5, who was shot and killed while sleeping on his grandmother's couch in north Minneapolis.

Before Tuesday's fatal shooting of 5-year-old Nizzel George at a north Minneapolis home, police had been called to the house four times this year. Police records show 10 calls for service to the home last year and 17 in 2010. But the boy's grandmother disputes that there is a connection between the shooting and anyone in the home.

The first-degree murder charges against Stephon Terrell Shannon and an unnamed 15-year-old detail retaliatory street justice that police and community leaders say led to 5-year-old Nizzel George's death last Tuesday, when the shooters allegedly fired at the boy's house as payback for an earlier shooting. It's a culture of silence and retribution that police and others decried as they urged more witnesses to come forward, the Star Tribune reports.