Police: Mom Let 2-year-old Handle Gun Before Fatal Shooting

PHOENIX (AP) — A 9-year-old boy shot in the head by his 2-year-old brother with their mother's handgun died, and their mother told police she had previously let the toddler handle the gun when it wasn't loaded, authorities said. The mother, Wendy Lavarnia, 28, told police she had put her loaded gun on a bed within reach of her 2-year-old and 4-year-old sons while she turned to get a holster, according to court records. Wendy Lavarnia told police she had allowed "the 2-year-old to practice pulling the trigger of this gun when empty on previous occasions," the records showed. A review conducted by The Associated Press and the USA TODAY Network found that minors died from accidental shootings at their own hands, or at the hands of other children or adults, at a pace of one every other day during the first six months of 2016.

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