A mother in Florida was arrested after her 4-year-old son found her gun in her purse and fatally shot himself in the head.
Diamond Phillips has been charged with culpable negligence involving a firearm, according to Manatee County court records.
The incident took place on June 21 when the sheriff’s office responded to a home in Sarasota after they received reports that a 4-year-old boy had shot himself, according to a probable cause affidavit viewed by Law & Crime.
The deputies met with Phillips, 29, and the child’s grandmother, who said that the boy shot himself “using the mother’s gun.”
A mother in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been arrested…
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