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| US toddler kills himself with mother's gun | |
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| A three-year-old boy has killed himself while playing with his mother's handgun, according to police in Ohio. | A three-year-old boy has killed himself while playing with his mother's handgun, according to police in Ohio. |
| The boy shot and fatally wounded himself in the chest after finding the gun at his home near Cincinnati. | The boy shot and fatally wounded himself in the chest after finding the gun at his home near Cincinnati. |
| In a 911 audiotape release by police, the boy's mother Elizabeth Green is heard reporting the incident. | In a 911 audiotape release by police, the boy's mother Elizabeth Green is heard reporting the incident. |
| "My son just shot himself and I'm not getting a pulse," she is heard screaming. Prosecutors are considering whether to charge her. | |
| In the call, she said she keeps the gun in her purse and had set the purse down at home before the tragedy. | In the call, she said she keeps the gun in her purse and had set the purse down at home before the tragedy. |
| "The gun is mine. It is in the house, I carry it in my purse, I laid it down. We just got home," the mother told the 911 operator. | |
| The boy has been identified as Marques Green, according to local media. | |
| A detective was seen leaving the home with a small black handgun, and placing it into an evidence bag. | |
| This is the second accidental shooting death of a child this month in this region of Ohio. | |
| About two children die in the US every day in accidental shootings, or about 100 per year, according to data compiled by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. |