Two-year-old toddler shoots and kills himself with loaded gun kept under pillow at Georgia home
Police have ruled the shooting accidental but are investigating further, with both parents said to be cooperating.
A two-year-old tragically shot and killed himself with a handgun that was kept under a pillow at his home, say police in Jonesboro, Georgia.
The incident is said to have occurred last Thursday, November 15, with officers from the Clayton County Police Department responding to the residence on 300 block of Blackhawk Trail over reports of a child being shot.
According to NBC News, the responding deputies found a toddler with a gunshot wound to the body. Capt. Scott Stubbs, a spokesman for the department, said that the toddler, who has not been identified, entered a room where his father was sleeping and found the handgun under a pillow. The mother was also asleep in the front room during the incident.