‘Obviously it was on the bed’: 2-year-old boy dies after accidentally shooting himself while laying next to mom, cops say

A Florida mother and her boyfriend are behind bars after her 2-year-old son got ahold of a gun while in bed and accidentally shot himself to death, authorities say.

The tragic incident occurred around 7 p.m. on Feb. 18 in Port St. Lucie. Police responded to a report of a boy shooting himself in the head and found him on a bed in a bedroom suffering from a gunshot wound. He had a “considerable amount of blood” around his head and was gasping for air, a probable cause arrest affidavit said.

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