The 4-year-old was in the back seat with two young siblings when investigators believe he found the weapon.
Investigators believe a 4-year-old boy fatally shot himself after finding a gun in the back seat of a vehicle while his mother and a friend smoked marijuana in the front, a Louisiana sheriff said Monday.
“These types of deaths can certainly be prevented,” Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said at a news conference. Investigators initially thought the child was shot from behind or that a sibling may have shot him, but an autopsy confirmed he was shot from the front, Lopinto said.The gun belongs to the child's father, who was not there at the time of the shooting, and was left under a seat. The mother and her friend did not know the weapon was there, the sheriff said.
The mother and her friend admitted they were using marijuana at the time but no pot was recovered from the vehicle. They have been cooperative in the investigation, Lopinto said.
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