FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A toddler whose father said he accidentally shot his mother to death has been temporarily removed from his father’s custody.
The father of the 2 1/2 years old boy called 911 Wednesday saying the child had somehow accessed the gun and accidentally fired the 9 mm semiautomatic weapon.
On Friday, a judge ordered the child into the care of his mother’s relatives.
The child’s great aunt, Marva Anglin, said the boy doesn’t understand what happened and keeps asking for his mother.
She and other family members do not believe the baby killed 33-year-old Julia Bennett.