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Local authorities confirmed on Monday that a two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father in Florida after his parents left a loaded gun unattended.
According to reports, when police officers, alerted by a 911 call, arrived at the victim’s home near Orlando on May 26, they found the child’s mother Marie Ayala providing CPR to her husband, Reggie Mabry.
Law enforcement initially believed the 26-year-old, who died shortly afterwards in hospital, had shot himself, but the eldest of the couple’s three children later told investigators that the trigger was pulled by his two-year-old brother, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said at a news conference.
According to court documents, the gun was in a bag that Mabry had left on the ground and the child came across it and shot his father in the back while he was playing a video game on a computer.
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The five family members, including a five-month-old girl, were said to be in the same room at the time of the incident.
Both parents were on parole at the time after multiple offences of child neglect and drug use, the sheriff said.
“Gun owners that do not properly secure their firearms are just one split second away from one of these tragedies happening in their homes,” Mina said.
“Now these young children have effectively lost both of their parents. Their father is dead. Their mother is in jail, and a young child has to live his life knowing that he shot his father,” the sheriff added.
