A 26-year-old woman was shot dead in a Milwaukee freeway after a child got a hold of a gun and fired.
Authorities arrived at Highway 175 southbound at 10:30 am local time, the unidentified woman was pronounced dead at the crime scene. The highway was shut down and the vehicle was found parked at a side of the street.
The age of the child in the back seat hasn’t been stated nor the relationship it had with the deceased woman.
“Initial witness accounts indicate that a child in the back seat of the vehicle got a hold of a gun and discharged the firearm, sending a single bullet into the driver’s back,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement.
Another witness has stated to NBC Station that while driving the other way, it appeared to be more than one child in the vehicle.
The investigation remains on-going and authorities are yet to comment on how the child got a hold of a gun.
Similar accident in Florida
Two months ago the news of a Florida woman shot in the back by a child appeared in the public eye.
Jamie Gilt is a Florida woman living with her 4-year-old child, that defends the second amendment and had previously public her love for firearms.
The 31-year-old mother was driving near a Putnam County road when the accident happened, Gilt survived the accident.
The controversy was found on the social media of the mother, where she states that her 4-year-old son “Gets jacked up to target shoot with the .22 gun.”
Jamie Gilt also runs a pro-gun Facebook page where she dedicates her love for the firearms. After the accident, the Department of Children and Families is investigating the case.
Source: NBC News
These stupid and senseless gun accident caused by irresponsible gun owning parents just shows what is wrong with the gun rights movement.
In most countries everyone who wants a gun is required to take and pass a gun safety course showing you know the basic rules of gun safety.
YET gun rights advocates in America will tell you that it’s perfectly fine if someone owns a gun without knowing anything about gun safety
In fact, recently in Oklahoma the legislature just passed a law doing away with gun safety training for those wanting to carry their guns in publc. Utterly stupid!!!
They would protest if a driver were allowed to drive on public streets without a driving test or passing a test on driving safety…but have no problem with gun owners who handle weapons designed SPECIFICALLY TO KILL being totally ignorant of gun safety laws and carrying loaded guns around in public..
Fortunately in both these shooting cases the stupid parent suffered the consequences and not the child.
But in this sad case this child is going to be saddled with the horrifying knowledge that he killed his own mother. And till the day he dies he will be constantly reminded of that fact every time he has to answer the question “Who is your mother??””
In this accident there are TWO VICTIMS.