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Toddler Shoots Mother on Accident While Playing With Gun

Toddler Shoots Mother on Accident While Playing With Gun

In this Tuesday, April 17, 2018 photo, police work the scene where a 3-year-old girl accidentally shot and wounded her pregnant mother in a car parked outside a northwestern Indiana thrift store. (Rob Earnshaw/The Times via AP)

By    |   Wednesday, 18 April 2018 07:02 PM EDT

An Indiana toddler accidentally shot her pregnant mother Tuesday while playing with her father's handgun.

The shooting occurred in a Northwest Indiana parking lot. The 3-year-old shot her mother, identified as Shaneque Thomas, 21, from the back seat of the vehicle while her father was inside a store shopping and trying on clothes, according to WMAQ-TV.

“She had no idea what she had done and she was very scared,” Detective Sgt. James Bogner said, WMAQ-TV reported.

The girl’s 1-year-old brother, who also was inside the vehicle, was not harmed. 

The father, identified by police to WMAQ-TV as Menzo Brazien, is charged with child endangerment.

“A loaded weapon with children in the back seat: real careless act,” Merrilville Police Chief Joe Petruch told WMAQ-TV.

The mother is in critical but stable condition, the news station reported.

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