Patrice Price is seen in an updated photo provided by her father, Andre Price, in Milwaukee, Wednesday, April 27, 2016. Photo from Andre Price via Associated Press
An American woman was killed while driving along a Milwaukee highway on Thursday, after her two-year-old son accidentally shot her from the backseat of the moving car.
The victim, Patrice Price, had been driving a car owned by her security guard boyfriend, who reportedly left a loaded .40-caliber gun under the driver’s seat.
Citing reports from the Telegraph, the unsupervised toddler, who was sitting just behind his mother in the backseat, picked up the gun that slid out from under her chair.
Local officials added that the boy had recently learned how to unbuckle himself and fired the firearm right through the front seat, which directly struck her mother in the back.
Milwaukee officials said paramedics rushed to her aid but the 26-year-old died at the scene.
Also in the car were Price’s mother and one-year-old son, who were both in the front passenger seat.
Fortunately for the pair, they were left unscathed by the incident.
Meanwhile, the father of the deceased, Andre Price, described his daughter as a ‘hardworking’ mother of three, who’ll do anything for her children.
“Now I don’t have her no more. My chest has been hurting,” the elder Price told Milwaukee radio station, WISN. “I have a knot in my chest. They won’t even let me see my daughter. I wanted to hold my daughter for one last time.”
Price’s unfortunate passing comes just a month after a four-year-old boy in Florida shot his mother, Jamie Gilt, in similar circumstances.
Gilt, however, just sustained injuries and survived the shooting. Khristian Ibarrola, INQUIRER.net