The oldest was in the living room and the other four were in the bedroom when they found a small semiautomatic handgun in their mother's purse, police said. The only other people in the apartment at the time of the shooting were Henderson's five children. The 25-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Police were called to an apartment in Cornelius on Monday night and found the mother, Gabriel Alexis Henderson, in a back bedroom, according to a police press release. Shamaya Lynn, 21, was on a work-related call Wednesday. Guns are so prevalent in this country now that “Parricide by toddler firearm misadventure” could now a countable statistic.Ī North Carolina mother of five was accidentally killed and her youngest child injured when her children found a gun in her purse. At the scene in Florida WESH CNN A Florida woman died after being shot by her toddler while she was on a Zoom conference call, police say. According to WESH, police said it appeared. A woman is working from home on a Zoom call, and her four-year old finds an unsecured weapon, shoots her in the head, and kills her.īut this is not even the first case of a toddler killing a mother with a firearm this year. A 21-year-old mother in Altamonte Springs, Florida, was shot in the head and killed Wednesday by her toddler while she was on a Zoom call, police say. I am trying, and failing to wrap my head around this story. Speaking just for me, if I see one co-worker get killed on Zoom, I am going on vacation.Īnd according to Everytown for Gun Safety, there were at least 369 unintentional shooting by children younger than 18 last year alone, or about one per day. The child is believed to have somehow gained access to his father’s weapon, and thus far no charges have been filed.
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