This 29 year old woman was accidentally shot by her 2 year old son inside Walmart!
Veronica Rutledge was shot in front of her three other daughters
The woman was with four children in the store’s electronics section when she was killed
Police have identified a young woman who was shot dead by her toddler son in a supermarket, after he reached into her purse and fired a concealed handgun.
Officials said Veronica Rutledge, 29, was shopping in the Walmart store in Hayden, Idaho, with the two-year-old and her three daughters when she was shot and killed shortly after 10am.
The toddler had been placed in a shopping trolley’s child-seat and was able to put his hand into Mrs Rutledge’s purse. She died before the emergency services could reach her, police said. Officers used the store’s CCTV footage and witness testimonies to conclude the shooting was an accident.
They said the Mrs Rutledge had a licence to carry a concealed weapon but it was unclear why the gun went off so easily when squeezed by a toddler, and whether a safety catch was engaged.
The victim’s father-in-law, Terry Rutledge, told the Associated Press that the mother-of-four “was a beautiful, young, loving mother”.
“She was not the least bit irresponsible,” he said. “She was taken much too soon.”
Kootenai County sheriff’s spokesman Stu Miller told reporters the incident in the store about 40 miles north-east of Spokane, Washington, was an accident. Mrs Rutledge’s husband was not in the store when the shooting happened at about 10.20am, but he arrived shortly afterwards. All the children were taken to a relative’s house.
The victim was described as a ‘beautiful, young, loving mother’ The victim was described as a ‘beautiful, young, loving mother’
Mrs Rutledge, from Blackfoot, Idaho, about 380 miles from Hayden, was visiting for the holiday season. Police said she was browsing the store’s electronics section when the incident occurred, according to broadcaster KREM 2.
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