Currently, under investigation, no charges have been filed in the case. The Seminole County State Attorney’s Office is currently working with local detectives to figure out if the gun's owner will face charges. Both the children have been put in the care of relatives.
Lynn and the gun's owner shared two kids, one of them being the toddler. “Every year, hundreds of children in the United States gain access to unsecured, loaded guns in closets and nightstand drawers, in backpacks and purses, or just left out,“ said a recent report by Everytown For Gun Safety, a firearms control advocacy group.Īccording to the organization, unintentional shootings by minors have caused 879 deaths since 2015 and 114 this year.Unintentional killings by children not that uncommon In late September, a two-year-old boy accidentally killed himself in Texas after finding a loaded gun in a relative's backpack. But she was pronounced dead shortly thereafter by paramedics.Ī trial date has not yet been set, according to a statement from District Attorney Dan Faggard.Īccidental shootings by children are not unheard of in the United States. Police officers arrived to discover Avery trying to revive his girlfriend in their apartment in Altamonte Springs, a city north of Orlando.
Her baby is crying in the back,“ according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.Īvery, who had been away during the incident, also contacted emergency services upon his return, begging them to “please hurry,“ according to the paper. In a phone call to emergency services, one of Lynn’s co-workers can be heard saying: “One of the girls passed out, she was bleeding. The boy's 21-year-old mother, Shamaya Lynn, was shot in their home on August 11 with a single bullet, while in the middle of a Zoom meeting.
Veondre Avery, 22, who was charged with manslaughter and failure to securely store a firearm, was taken into custody on Tuesday, police and a prosecutor said.Īvery had stored the gun - loaded and without the safety on - in a backpack themed with the children’s television series “Paw Patrol.” MIAMI: The father of a two-year-old child who fatally shot his mother in the head while she was on a Zoom meeting, has been arrested in Florida for failing to keep the gun out of the toddler's reach.
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