Police said a 3-year-old boy died Tuesday afternoon after accidentally shooting himself while his mother was napping.
Wichita, Kansas police Lt. Dennis Wilson told The Wichita Eagle it was believed the boy’s mother and her boyfriend were asleep when the child located a handgun and accidentally shot himself in the chest.
The mother and boyfriend called 911 when they were woken up by the gunshot around 5 p.m. local time, he said. The boy was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m.
Wilson said four other children aged 5 and under were also present in the home when the incident occurred. No arrests were made although the mother’s boyfriend remained in custody nearly two hours after the shooting for questioning, according to the Eagle.
5 kids under age 5 and you think the couple was “napping”?
I was just going to comment on that as well. Who sleeps in the daytime when you have five little kids awake and playing in the home? Who leaves a loaded gun around with 5 little kids in the home? I’m betting that there’s some drugs or alcohol involved in this home.
Likely so.
I rented an apartment a few blocks from there in the 70’s and it was an iffy area way back then.
They kept the kids cooped up in the house with them and one kid’s dead but the mother who sent her 7-year old to the park got arrested and had to post $4K bond! Something’s very wrong.
…and a lot of stupid…