{"id":78686,"date":"2022-06-07T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=78686"},"modified":"2022-06-07T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:40:47","slug":"two-year-old-accidentally-shoots-and-kills-father-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=78686","title":{"rendered":"Two-year-old accidentally shoots and kills father in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father in Florida after his parents left a loaded gun unattended, local authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Law enforcement initially believed the 26-year-old, who died shortly afterward 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.<\/p>\n

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, court documents said.<\/p>\n

The five family members, including a five-month-old girl, were in the same room at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

Both parents were on parole at the time after multiple offenses of child neglect and drug use, the sheriff said.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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 their life knowing that he shot his father,” the sheriff added.<\/p>\n

Such tragedies are not uncommon in the United States.<\/p>\n

In August 2021, another two-year-old child found a gun that had been left in a Paw Patrol backpack and fatally shot his mother in the head while she taking part in a video conference.<\/p>\n

The latest accident also comes as the debate over gun regulations rages in the country, after several deadly mass shootings in a supermarket, hospital and primary school, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father in Florida after his parents left a loaded gun unattended, local authorities said Monday. 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":78687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n