Initially, police believed that someone broke into the house and shot the 26-year-old, who later succumbed to his hospital where he was treated.
A two-year-old boy killed his father in an accident in Florida, when he shot him in the back with a pistol that was left in the room where he was unattended by his parents, local authorities announced on Monday.
Arriving at the victim’s residence on May 26 near Orlando, police, alerted by phone, found the mother, Maria Agiala, massaging the heart of Reggie Mabri’s father, who was seriously injured by a bullet.
Police initially believed that someone had broken into the house and shot the 26-year-old, who later died at the hospital where he was treated; John Mina, Orange County Sheriff, during a press conference.
The gun was in a bag left on the floor by Reggie Mabri and the child, after finding it, started to look at it and shot his father in the back while he was playing a video game on a computer, it is clarified in briefs.
The five members of the family, including a five-month-old girl, were in the same room when the tragic incident took place.
Both parents were released on parole as they faced prosecution for child neglect and drug use, the sheriff noted.
“Weapons owners “They do not store them safely, they are only a fraction of a second away from such a tragedy,” he warned.
Cases of this nature are shockingly common in the United States. In August 2021, a 2-year-old boy grabbed a gun in a backpack and shot his mother in the head, who was involved in a video call via Zoom.
The announcement of the accident was made while the dialogue on the control of firearms continues in the USA, after the deadly attacks in a supermarket, in a primary school and in a hospital within a few days.
