DETROIT – A Detroit mother will go to trial for a second-degree child abuse charge after her 4-year-old son apparently shot himself in their west side home.

Latasha Tamika Lum waived her preliminary exam on Monday. She was bound over to the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice and will be arraigned there on Nov. 24.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said 30-year-old Lum awoke to a gunshot after falling asleep the night of Oct. 27 with a .40-caliber handgun in the living room of her home on Minock Street.

Her son, Jaylen, shot himself in the thigh. He was treated at Children's Hospital in Detroit and released.

Police said Lum told them she had gone to the gun range earlier in the day and fell asleep with the gun in a holster on her hip. But police also said the boy told them he found the gun on a table.

Jaylen's uncle, Joshua Wilson, said his sister would never put her son in harm's way.

"She's a good mom," Wilson said. "She works every day and she works hard."

Wilson said his sister has a gun for personal protection.