MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Tennessee toddler accidentally shot and killed her father while playing with a gun, authorities said.
According to WHBQ-TV, the incident occurred Wednesday on Harvest Hill Road in Memphis. Jerome Smith and Allante Jones were in a car with Smith’s 3-year-old daughter, who picked up a gun that Jones had set down in the backseat, Memphis police said. As the girl played with the gun, it discharged, striking and killing Smith, authorities said.
Police arrested Jones, 26, on charges of reckless homicide and illegally possessing a weapon, WHBQ reported.
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