Two-year-old Shoots Mother Who Drove Down Highway

When a mother drove down a Milwaukee highway, she got fatally shot Tuesday morning, as her toddler at the back of her car got his hands on a gun, according to the police.

At about 10.30 a.m., 26-year-old Patrice Price was driving a car belonging to her security guard boyfriend on Interstate 41/U.S. 175 southbound. Suddenly she was shot, said the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office.

"Initial witness accounts indicate that a child in the back seat of the vehicle got hold of a gun and discharged the firearm, sending a single bullet into the drivers back," the sheriff's office said.

When people arrived at the spot they found her without a pulse, and dead.

During the ongoing investigation, the MCSO said that the evidence indicates  that her boyfriend had left the gun in the car, and her two-year-old son lay his hands on it and shoot her.

The shooting may have been an accident, but the family is shattered. Andre Price, Patrice's father, revealed that she had been a hard-working mother with three children. They are now staying with the family.

"Now I don't have her no more," he said. "My chest has been hurting. I have a knot in my chest. They won't even let me see my daughter. I wanted to hold my daughter for one last time."

Not possessing a license at the time, Price has been wanted on a Waukesha County warrant for driving without a license. Maybe her boyfriend too could be charged, though he has not been arrested.

Various southbound lanes of the Interstate 41/U.S. 175 got closed for a few hours after the death of the mother. They have since been reopened.