A woman in South Carolina has died after she was accidentally shot with an unsecured firearm by her 3-year-old daughter on Wednesday, officials said.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on social media that law enforcement officers responded to the shooting at 7:45 a.m. on Wednesday where they found the victim, identified as Cora Lyn Bush—who lived in Spartanburg—the 3-year-old child, and a maternal grandmother.
Officials said that the grandmother’s account of what had happened “corroborated with both the evidence at the scene and the injury to the victim.”
“Although our investigation remains active, all indications are this incident was a result of the young child gaining access to an unsecured firearm, which resulted in the mother being accidentally shot and later passing away at the hospital,” the sheriff’s office said….