An 11-year-old Kiln boy with a big heart and a love for the outdoors died in Vicksburg Monday from an apparent accidental shooting at the hand of a 14-year-old family friend, police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.

Christian B. Jordan, street address unavailable, was shot just before 2:47 p.m. with a .22-caliber handgun while sitting with his friend in his father’s pickup in the parking lot at Goldie’s Trail Barbeque, 2430 S. Frontage Road, Stewart said. Christian’s father, Blue Jordan, had gone inside the restaurant to pick up a take-out order, Stewart said.

Christian had just completed the sixth grade at Hancock Middle School, his father said.

“He was a wonderful boy,” Blue Jordan said this morning. “He was an outdoor kid. He loved hunting and fishing, and he played all sports, all of them.”

“Every person he ever met, he touched their heart in a way they never forgot,” said Christian’s grandmother, Lola Peterson. “He was very outgoing. He never met a stranger. He never met anybody he wouldn’t help if they needed it, and he never had anything he wouldn’t give away if someone needed it. He was just that kind of kid.”

Christian was pronounced dead at 3:24 p.m. by a doctor at River Region Medical Center. The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the chest, said Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey. The boy’s body was sent to the Mississippi crime lab in Jackson for an autopsy, Huskey said.

Blue Jordan had taken the boys to a hunting camp off the levee south of Delta, La., where they had been shooting turtles in the backwater, Stewart said. They stopped in Vicksburg on their way home.

The 14-year-old, a lifelong friend of the family, was in the back seat of the 2011 GMC pickup, Huskey said. He moved the gun, which fired just as Christian, who was sitting in the front seat, turned around to say something. The bullet went through the seat into Christian, Huskey said.

“The 14-year-old was moving (the gun) when it went off and shot Christian once in the chest,” Stewart said.

The 14-year-old then ran into the restaurant to get Jordan, who ran to the truck and immediately began to drive to the hospital’s emergency room when Warren County Deputy Billy Joe Heggins drove into the parking lot, Stewart said.

J ordan waved down Heggins, who provided an escort to River Region and alerted Vicksburg police, who responded to the hospital, Stewart said.

In addition to his father, Christian is survived by his mother, Madella Jordan, two sisters, 17 and 10, and both maternal and paternal grandparents in Jefferson, Texas, and Elizabeth and Oakdale, La.

The family belongs to Christ Chapel Baptist Church of Kiln, Blue Jordan said.

Christian’s death is believed to have been accidental and no charges have been filed, but all information from the case will be turned over to the office of District Attorney Ricky Smith, Stewart said.

Smith said this morning that Mississippi law does not prohibit having a loaded gun in a vehicle.