His mom died in a March murder-suicide. Now he’s charged with shooting a child.

The son of a woman killed in a murder-suicide earlier this year is jailed on charges that he wounded a 4-year-old child when he fired a barrage of bullets at a Cumberland County home.

Gavyn W. Brooks, 22, of Carneys Point, allegedly drove to a home on James Moore Road in the Port Norris community in Commercial Township on June 24 and fired 20 rounds at the residence, according to police.

A man, his girlfriend and his young son were sleeping in the same bed in that home around 1:30 a.m. when they heard shots, saw blood on the bed and discovered the child was wounded…

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