This sad case is being portrayed by the anti-gun Left as an object lesson of why you should not own guns, especially if you have children. On closer examination one finds that this tragedy was the result of a “perfect storm” of bad decisions. First the deceased loaned her own car to a male friend to use on a date with another woman/women several days previously. Following the date the male friend stopped at a convenience store leaving the car running and unlocked while he was in the store. Yes, you guessed it, the car was promptly stolen while he was in the store (this is Milwaukee after all). The deceased subsequently borrowed her boy friend’s car to run some errand. She took her mother, her two-year-old son and another one-year old toddler with her. Neither of the toddlers were placed in child car seats. The one-year-old sat on the mother’s lap in the front seat, while the two-year-old boy was in the back seat standing on the floor. Incidentally, the boy friend was not the father of either child. The boy friend was employed as a security guard and left his holstered .40 caliber duty handgun inside the passenger compartment of his car. For some reason the deceased woman did not place the firearm in the trunk of the vehicle. Instead she removed the gun from the holster and slid it in under her seat. Now the holster on the duty belt was a security holster, meaning that the handgun was locked in the holster until the lock was released by pressing a lever or button with the thumb or forefinger while drawing the gun. So the gun would have actually been more secure had the deceased left it in the holster. In the event the gun then slid out from under the driver’s seat and onto the floor in front of the rear seat where the two-year-old boy was able to get his hands on it and fire a shot killing his mother in the driver’s seat. As it turned out the deceased woman did not have a valid driver’s license, so it was illegal for her to drive the car in the first place. Lesson learned.
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Patrice Price, 26, was reportedly driving a car belonging to her security guard boyfriend when her toddler accidentally fired a gun.
A mother driving down a Milwaukee highway was shot and killed by her toddler son in the backseat when he got his hands on a gun, police said.
Patrice Price, 26, was driving a car belonging to her security guard boyfriend when the two-year-old accidentally fired a weapon that had been left in the vehicle, her father Andre Price told WISN.
She was pronounced dead on scene Tuesday on Highway 175, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Patrice Price, a 26-year-old mother of three, was shot dead on a Milwaukee highway by her child in the backseat.
“Initial witness accounts indicate that a child in the back seat of the vehicle got ahold of a gun and discharged the firearm, sending a single bullet into the driver’s back,” the department said in a statement. “The MCSO investigation into the death is on-going.”
Andre Price, who was distraught over his daughter's death, said that she was a hard-working mother of three.
"I have a knot in my chest. They won't even let me see my daughter. I wanted to hold my daughter for one last time," he said.
The incident comes less than two months after a Florida mom was shot in the back while driving by her 4-year-old son, who found a loaded weapon in the back seat.
Jamie Gilt, who posted often about her love of guns, survived the mid-drive shooting, though authorities are contemplating charges for the 31-year-old mom.
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