A detective stands in the garage connected to the home where a 2-year-old boy died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 20, 2016.(Photo: Michael Anthony Adams / IndyStar)
INDIANAPOLIS —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>A 2-year-old boy died Wednesday after he
shot himself with a gun he found in his mother's purse on Indianapolis' northwest side, police said.
The mother "had momentarily stepped away," police said, when her toddler climbed to a kitchen counter, removed a gun from his mother's purse and shot himself about 9 p.m.
Officers arrived and found the boy with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the shoulder. The child was taken to Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in critical condition, and he later died.
"The grieving mother is cooperating with detectives," the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said in a news release Thursday, "and after detectives questioned her, she was later released."
The mother and child were the only people home at the time of the shooting, police said.
Police are urging gun owners to secure their weapons whenever<span style="color: Red;">*</span>children are nearby.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department suggests keeping guns unloaded, locked and out of the reach of kids; storing ammunition and guns in separate locations; storing keys for gun locks and ammunition safes separately from house keys; and out of reach of children.
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