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A two-year-old boy accidentally killed his father in Florida by shooting him with a loaded gun that his parents had left unattended, local authorities reported Monday.
On May 26, police went to the victim’s residence near Orlandoin the center of Floridaafter receiving an emergency call.
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Upon arrival, the agents verified that a woman, Marie Ayalawas giving her husband a cardiac massage, Reggie Mabriwho had been shot.
The 26-year-old man died shortly after in hospital, and police at first thought he had committed suicide.Orange County Sheriff John Mina explained at a press conference.
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But the oldest of the couple’s three children, a five-year-old boy, told officers that it was his two-year-old brother who had shot their father in the backadded the sheriff.
The little boy found the gun in a bag that Mabry had left on the ground and shot his father while he was playing a video game. on a computer, according to court documents.
The whole family –the parents, the two children and a five-month-old girl– was in the only bedroom of the house when the events occurred.
Mabry and Ayala were on probation after committing crimes of child neglect and drug useSheriff Mina said.
After the death of her husband, Police arrested Ayala, 28, for involuntary manslaughter, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and probation violation.
“Gun owners who do not properly secure their guns are a fraction of a second away from one of these tragedies occurring in their homes”Mina lamented.
“Now these children have lost both of their parents. His father is dead. His mother is in jail. And a boy has to live knowing that he shot his father”, he added.
The events were revealed in the midst of the debate on gun control in the United States, following a series of shootings, including the one that left 19 children dead in a Texas school on May 24.
Source: Elcomercio
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