Toddler shot himself with gun left in dad’s fanny pack on bed during nap time, cops say

A Georgia man is behind bars after his 2-year-old son allegedly got ahold of a gun that was inside a fanny pack on a bed and accidentally shot himself to death.

Richard Lee Willis stands accused of second-degree murder and cruelty to children in the death of River Willis in Sandy Springs, which sits just outside Atlanta.

Officers responded around 2 p.m. Wednesday to an apartment complex in the 2600 block of Sandalwood Drive for a report of a shooting. When they went inside the apartment they found River suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced him dead…

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