A toddler riding in the back of a car accidentally shot dead his
mother with a gun that slid out from under the driver's seat on Tuesday April 26 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The 26-year-old victim, Patrice Price, was
pronounced dead at the scene, the local sheriff's office said. The child, aged two
and a half and identified by local media as a boy, fired the 40-calibre
gun through the driver's seat where his mother was at the wheel.
Local broadcaster WISN quoted the victim's father Andre Price as saying that she was a hardworking mother of three.
"This
little girl right here meant everything in the world to me,” Andre
Price told the station. And I lost the other half of my heart," Mr Price
said.
"Now I don’t have her no more. My chest has been hurting. 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."
The
weapon apparently belonged to the victim's security guard boyfriend,
with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper reporting that she was
driving his car because hers had been stolen days earlier.
The
sheriff's office said that deputies found a security officer's gun belt
belonging to the boyfriend on the floor of the front passenger seat. The
firearm was recovered on the floor behind the driver's seat.
AP reports that in the vehicle was another of Price's children, aged one, and the
woman's mother. Neither of the children was in a car seat. Price's
mother told relatives that her daughter turned to her after a loud pop
rang out and said:
"Momma, don't let me die," WISN reported.
Following
the shooting, fellow motorists stopped and pushed the car out of
traffic before police arrived and performed CPR on Price while awaiting
the arrival of emergency medical personnel.
Asia Nelson, Price's best friend, told FOX6: "Patrice was
one-of-a-kind! She was loving, caring and kindhearted. She always had
positive things to say no matter what she was going through."
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