A grieving sibling is speaking out one day after his 13-year-old brother died in a fire inside their Margate home, leaving his family devastated.

Speaking with 7News on Friday, Gavin McCoy identified his brother as Gianni Jackson.

The victim’s father had break the news to the school bus driver Friday morning that son was killed in a house fire Thursday afternoon.

McCoy told 7News off camera that his brother had Down syndrome, but that never stopped him from being independent and was loved by everyone.

Neighbors and nearby witnesses were reeling over the family’s loss.

“Can’t even begin to understand what he’s feeling right now,” said Erick, a neighbor of the family.

The house fire aloing the 5500 block of Southwest Sixth Street took the life of the boy and one of the family’s dogs, a

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