Mother driving down highway fatally shot by 2-year-old son sitting in the backseat

A mother who was driving down a highway in Milwaukee was shot and killed when her 2-year-old son accidentally got his hands on a gun while he was in the backseat.

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Patrice Price was pronounced dead on the scene after her son found a weapon that was left in the car, which belonged to her security guard boyfriend.

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“Initial witness accounts indicate that a child in the back seat of the vehicle got ahold of a gun and discharged the firearm, sending a single bullet into the driver’s back,” the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “The MCSO investigation into the death is on-going.”

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Her father, Andre Price, mourned the loss of the 26-year-old mother of three, saying, “I have a knot in my chest. They won’t even let me see my daughter. I wanted to hold my daughter for one last time.”