U.S. authorities said a two-year-old boy killed his father in Florida after he accidentally shot him with an unattended lead-loaded firearm.

When police arrived at the victim’s home near Orlando on May 26 after receiving the message, they discovered that Mary Ayala’s mother was trying to revive her husband, Reggie Mabry, who had been shot dead.

Police initially believed the 26-year-old, who died shortly after being taken to hospital, had shot himself, but the eldest son of the couple’s three children told investigators it was his two-year-old brother. who shot, as he explained at a press conference, the officer in charge of the Orange County shooting, John Man.

Court documents state that the gun was in a bag belonging to Reggie Mabry left on the ground, and after the child found it, he shot the father in the back, who was playing a video game on the computer.

Five family members, including a five-month-old girl, were in the same room at the time of the incident.

Mina explained that both parents were released on parole after being convicted of multiple offenses of child neglect and drug use.

He added: “Weapon owners who do not store them in a safe place are subject to similar tragedies.”

This incident is part of a series of similar incidents reported in the United States. In August 2021, a two-year-old boy killed his mother, who was in attendance at a Zoom meeting, by shooting a bullet in the head with a weapon that was placed in a backpack inspired by the PAW Patrol-inspired children’s series, loaded. with cartridges and without security key.

The killings come in light of controversy over the handling of firearms in the US, after several fatal shootings were reported at a store, hospital and school.