"John" TYSON - 2 yo - (2009)Sanford NC

Police are investigating the death of a
2-year-old boy who was shot in the head after a gun was left unsecured
in his central North Carolina home.

Sanford Police Department spokesman Capt. David Smith said officers
responded to a call from a home in Sanford Wednesday morning and found
the child suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a
hospital and pronounced dead.

Smith said the boy’s mother, Melanie Tyson, and two other children,
a 4-year-old and another toddler, were in the home at the time.

Police are still investigating the incident and say it isn’t clear
if the 2-year-old, whose name has not been released, accidentally shot
himself or if one of the other children shot him.

No phone number is listed for the child’s parents.