Laura Ilg, Norwalk, Ohio eight month pregnant woman accidentally shot dead by 2 year old son. Unborn child also dies. Toddler was able to access handgun from nightstand in parents’ bedroom.
And yet again. An eight months pregnant woman was accidentally shot dead by her 2 year old son after the boy coming across a gun in a drawer at the family’s Ohio home last week.
Laura Ilg, 31, frantically called 911 on Friday upon getting shot to report that the toddler had accidentally pulled the trigger and shot her in the back, WOIO reported.
The severely injured mom, who was 33 weeks pregnant, was found with her little boy in an upstairs bedroom, with responding officers forced to kick down the front door of the family Norwalk home.
Baby gates set up or were they?
Upon making it upstairs, cops found a 9mm handgun next to the mother and her toddler son, WKYC reported.
The mom was rushed to Fisher-Titus Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency caesarean, but the unborn child didn’t survive, Police Chief David Smith said Tuesday.
Ilg died from her gunshot injuries a few hours later.
Police said the firearm, which belongs to Ilg’s husband, Alek Ilg, was usually kept in a nightstand next to the couple’s bed.
Before passing away, the mom told cops that the bedroom door was often locked and there were a number of baby gates set up throughout the home to prevent the toddler from straying unattended.
Police now suspect one of the usually closed baby gates had actually been left open.
Police probe functionality of gun
Ilg said her son somehow got into the bedroom while she was doing laundry and started playing with the gun.
She told cops she didn’t realize the little boy even had the weapon until she was suddenly struck in the back with a bullet.
Her husband, who was at work at the time of the shooting, posted a Facebook tribute to his slain wife and son in the wake of the ordeal.
‘If you haven’t heard, Laura and our unborn son Talisen passed away Friday. There are no words for the pain and loss I feel,’ the dad wrote.
‘She was, is, and will always be, the love of my life.’
The couple’s surviving son is being cared for by his father, cops said.
Police are probing the functionality of the firearm and how the toddler was even able to pull the trigger.
It remained unclear if the father now faced charges.
