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.

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.

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.

Investigators told Fox 9 they have identified the gunman who killed a young boy Tuesday morning in north Minneapolis, but they're still asking the public for more tips. A $1,000 reward is being offered for information. The five-year-old boy was sleeping on a couch inside his home when he was struck by a single bullet.

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.

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.

Many on Minneapolis' north side hope the community will use the tragedy of Nizzel George's death as a rallying point to bring about a change away from a culture of guns and violence. "Enough is enough" was a rallying cry at the funeral for the five-year-old who was killed when his grandmother's home was sprayed with gunshots.

Fifteen-year-old Julian Kijuan Lamar Anderson, also known as Funny Mo, has been certified as an adult in the shooting death case of Nizzel George, the 5-year-old who was killed by a bullet fired into a north Minneapolis house as he slept on a couch in June. He and Stephon Shannon, 17, have been charged with felony murder.