A young woman was shopping in the electronics department at a Walmart in Hayden, Idaho with her 2-year old son, and three other children, when an unthinkably tragic accident occurred. At about 10:30am the 2-year-old reached into his mother’s purse when she wasn’t looking and shot her dead.
All the details are yet to be fully released, but the Walmart will remain closed until at least tomorrow.
The spokesman for the sheriff in Kootenai County, a politically conservative area, said that the young woman’s family had come to the area to visit and that she did have a concealed weapons permit.
No footage has been released at this time, but Miller stated:
The young boy was left in the shopping cart, and reached into the victim’s purse, grabbing a small caliber handgun. The boy only shot his mother once.
One bullet is all it took.
She was shopping with her children alone at the time. Her husband arrived at the scene shortly after the incident.
Walmart spokesperson Brooke Buchanan had this to say in a statement :
A very sad and tragic incident happened in our Hayden store involving a female customer, and we’re working with the local sheriff’s department while they investigate what happened.
Several questions remain to be answered about the horrific incident, but it will surely spark even more debate about gun control in this country.
Once further details are confirmed, the story will be updated.
Featured Image via screengrab from ABC News report
Of what necessity was it to point out that it happened in a politically conservative area?
There is no necessity, but it is a relevant detail since attitudes toward guns and gun control efforts are very much a left-right issue. It may also be a predictor of reactions in the local community. Why would it not be worthy of mention?
The right wing conservatives seem to be more rabid about gun rights than progressives. The right wing equates gun rights with civil rights, or the right to breathe oxygen….
Perhaps because “politically conservative area” has come to mean an area where there are a high percentage of people owning and carrying guns. For their own and other citizen’s safety in case some bad guy start shooting, you know.
Good thing she had that gun with her to protect herself and her child, lucky kid getting rid of the idiot at such a young age now maybe it’ll stand a chance of finding a parent who’s not a complete moron, I just love happy endings don’t you.
Guns don’t kill people. Toddlers with guns kill people.
I live in Idaho and if I even say common sense gun laws people freak out, this story will change nothing.
Let me guess….she was so terrified of shopping in a walmart, for goodness sake, that she just could not part with her gun….IDIOT!
I guess since she already spawned, she can’t qualify for a Darwin award…
It’s amazing that someone can think that the chances of a stranger opening fire in a public place are GREATER than the chance her curious toddler will put his hands in the purse she left inches from his reach. In this case, the woman paid the ultimate price for her own paranoia, but her toddler could have just as easily shot another person.
This is tragic. Beyond tragic. Those kids will forever be traumatized by this incident. Where has common sense gone?
Chickens do come home to roost. Remember the Crawford murder in the Ohio Walmart? White cops storm the store and gun down an innocent Black man who was holding a toy gun. Now a Baby guns down a mom. Karma is a bitch Walmart!
Bet you one thing; the victim was not Black. Karma is a bitch: Shades of poor John Crawford with the play gun in Walmart who was murdered by a lowlife. What goes around - comes around White America. One way or the other.
Wonder who she had the pistol for? Sure as hell can’t put it on Blacks, because there are very few in Idaho. Can it be that there are White Thugs in America? No, well I never would hav…… To hear Rudy Giuliani tell it, there are NO White criminals in America, only Black ones, and John Gotti was a lovable good guy who was a credit to New York City. Oh yeah, his daughter is selling name brand perfume at a discount rate.
Score: Walmart 0; Cops 1; Blacks 2. Dead White mom and destroyed White infant. Blacks win.
About 6million concealed carry permits issued in the US. While irresponsible accidental shootings are tragic the percentage of them is miniscule. The woman in this instance was stupid. Btw over 80% of gun owners support laws that demand secure storage and handling of firearms.
WTF is wrong with people ? People’s right to concealed carry seems to rank higher than the right not to get shot ! The cops are not happy now either there is no one to put in jail, although they will probably try to prosecute the 2 yr old.
Hypothetical.. What would cops do if they encountered a two-year-old with a gun? Would their standard operating procedures apply or would they come in there guns blazing and mow the little tike down? Just wondering how this would go down..
Depends if it was a black baby …
Maybe the baby was just trying to “stand his ground” ?
They’re livin in their own private Idaho . . .