{The child, aged two and a half, fired the 40-caliber gun through the driver’s seat.}<\/p>\n
A toddler riding in the back of a car accidentally shot dead his mother with a gun that slid out from under the driver’s seat, US police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old victim, Patrice Price, was pronounced dead at the scene following Tuesday’s incident in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the local sheriff’s office said.
\nThe child, aged two and a half and identified by local media as a boy, fired the 40-caliber gun through the driver’s seat.<\/p>\n
Local broadcaster WISN quoted the victim’s father as saying that she was a mother of three.<\/p>\n
“I have a knot in my chest,” Andre Price told the station.<\/p>\n
The weapon apparently belonged to the victim’s security guard boyfriend, with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper reporting that she was driving his car because hers had been stolen.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said that deputies found a security officer’s gun belt belonging to the boyfriend on the floor of the front passenger seat.<\/p>\n
The firearm was recovered on the floor behind the driver’s seat and an investigation is under way.<\/p>\n
Also in the vehicle was another of Price’s children, aged one, and her mother. Neither of the children were in a car seat.<\/p>\n
Following the shooting, fellow motorists stopped and pushed the car out of traffic before police arrived.<\/p>\n
Last month, a four-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother in the back while she was at the wheel, leaving the passionately pro-gun woman badly wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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