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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowPolice say a toddler found his mother’s unsecured gun while she was out of the room and accidentally shot himself to death in a house outside Mooresville.
The Morgan County Sheriff’s Department says the shooting occurred Wednesday morning at a home outside Mooresville, about 15 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
The department identified the child as 2-year-old Anthony Jones of Indianapolis.
Deputies say his mother, 26-year-old Stephanie Jones, told them she had gone to the bathroom while her son was watching television. She heard a gunshot and ran back to find him lying on the floor with a fatal head injury. The child was pronounced dead at the scene.
The boy’s father wasn’t home at the time, and the family was housesitting for relatives.
The death remains under investigation.
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