The family of a South Florida teenager said they’re outraged after learning that the boy who fatally shot the teen in 2022 will only have to serve two years in jail for the crime.

Mekhi Stevenson was shot and killed at a home in Miami in November 2022.

The 17-year-old high school football star was in a room with some friends and his younger brother when a 15-year-old boy pulled out a semi-automatic gun and began waving it around, according to an arrest affidavit cited by the Miami Herald.

After he removed and reinserted the magazine, Mekhi’s younger brother told the teen the gun was loaded and to “stop playing with the firearm and put it away.”

But, according to the affidavit, the teen “pulled the slide back partially to check and then stated that it wasn’t loaded because it didn’t eje

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