< PREVIOUS SLIDE SLIDE 1 of 4 NEXT SLIDE > An article of clothing is collected as evidence near a car in the parking lot of a shopping plaza at 2510 West Broward Boulevard where a mother was shot by her young child on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. © Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS

FORT LAUDERDALE — A mother was hospitalized early Thursday afternoon after her child shot her in the parking lot of a shopping plaza in downtown Fort Lauderdale, police said.

The accidental shooting happened at 1:45 p.m. at 2510 West Broward Blvd., a police spokeswoman said.

Fort Lauderdale police have released few details other than “child got hold of a gun inside vehicle and accidentally shot mother.”

The injured mother was taken to a hospital as a “trauma alert,” police said.

Police did not disclose the child’s age or gender or whose gun it may have been.

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