The incident took place on May 26, near Orlando, in central Florida. The police went to the victim’s residence after receiving an emergency call. Upon arrival, officers found a woman, Marie Ayala, performing heart massage on her husband, Reggie Mabry, who had been shot.
The 26-year-old man died shortly after at the hospital.
Police initially believed the cause of death was suicide-related, Orange County Sheriff John Mina told a news conference. But the oldest of the couple’s three children, a 5-year-old boy, told officers that it was his 2-year-old brother who had shot his father in the back, he added.
According to court documents, the boy found the gun in a bag that Mabry had left on the ground and shot his father in the back while he was playing a video game on the computer. The whole family was in the only bedroom of the house when the events occurred.
Mabry and Ayala were on probation after committing child neglect and narcotics charges, the sheriff said.
Ayala, 28, was booked for involuntary manslaughter, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and violation of probation.
“Gun owners who don’t properly secure their guns are a fraction of a second away from one of these tragedies occurring in their homes,” Mina said. “Now these children have lost both of their parents. His father is dead. His mother is in jail. And a boy has to live knowing that he shot his father.”
Source: Ambito
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