PTI, New York :
In yet another shooting incident in the US involving toddlers, a six-year-old boy playing with his mother’s gun accidentally shot and killed his four-year-old brother.
The older boy was playing with his mother’s loaded gun at the family’s third-floor apartment in New Jersey when he accidentally shot his brother in the head, Connie Jackson, a city spokeswoman, said.
The boy was taken to University Hospital in Newark where he was pronounced dead yesterday, a hospital spokesperson was quoted as saying by CBS News.
The boys’ mother, 22-year-old Itiyanah Spruill, was arrested later and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and a weapons violation. She was being held on USD 310,000 bail.
“This is a terribly unfortunate incident,” Mayor Lester E Taylor III said in a statement.
