A three-year-old girl was shot and killed by a five-year-old boy in Bena, Minnesota early Friday morning, less than two days after a child, describes as a “toddler,” shot his mother in the head while she was on a work Zoom call.
ABC News reports that police responded to a call of an accidental shooting at around 3:30 a.m. on Friday. The family attempted to drive the child to a hospital and met an ambulance on the way. After treatment efforts failed, the child was declared dead. Police did not know how the five-year-old got the gun, and they would not specify the relationship between the two children.
In Florida on Wednesday, 21-year-old Shamaya Lynn was on a work-related Zoom call when other participants heard a pop and she started slumping in her chair, CNN reports. A person on the Zoom call contacted local police, who responded to Lynn’s house. They found the woman with a bullet hole in the back of her head and a loaded gun nearby. Police say an adult had left a loaded gun in the house and Lynn’s child found it.