Milwaukee Shooting Death Highlights Need for Education
By Jenn Jacques
This was not a story we should ever have seen nor should we see it again.
A 26-year-old Milwaukee woman was shot and killed Tuesday morning as she drove down a Wisconsin highway. The person who pulled the trigger in the fatal shooting of Patrice Price, authorities believe, was Price’s toddler, who found a firearm in the car.
The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday identified Price as the victim in the incident. She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a news release.
“According to witness accounts, Price’s 2 ½-year-old child was in the back seat, retrieved a firearm that slid out from under the driver’s seat and shot through the seat, striking the driver,” the release stated. “The driver’s mother and one-year-old child were in the front passenger seat.”
Price’s father, Andre Price, told WISN, an ABC affiliate, that the child’s mother was his son, a security guard, and was driving his car when the shooting occurred.
“My chest has been hurting,” Andre Price told the station. “I’ve got a knot in my chest.”
Deputies discovered a gun belt on “the floor of the front passenger seat,” according to the release. That gun belt belonged to …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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