#GoFundMe for Cannon Hinnant, boy fatally shot in head by neighbor, raises $700K

A GoFundMe account has raised some $700,000 for the family of a North Carolina boy shot in the head and killed by a neighbor.

Cannon Hinnant, 5, was riding his bike outside his home last Sunday when Darius Sessoms, who lives next door to Cannon’s dad, allegedly ran up and shot the child at point-blank range. Sessoms has been charged with murder.

“He was merely doing what he would do any other day and that’s playing with his sisters, riding his bike, doing what kids do and all of the innocence that comes with being a child,” wrote Gwen Hinnant, who listed herself as Cannon’s grandmother and started the fundraiser to pay for the boy’s funeral.

Meanwhile, police in Wilson, NC, where Cannon and his killer lived, warned of fake news releases about the case being circulated on social media. Cops, who have not offered a motive for the shooting, said the posts are made to “look like they were releases from investigators” and urged people to report them.

The only official police news releases about the case are on the department’s website, cops said.