A Michigan mother was sentenced after her unsupervised 5-year-old son shot himself in the face as he played with a loaded gun left on a dresser while jumping on a bed in his apartment in front of his four siblings.
Halisa Lloydnette-Christine Brown, 25, was sentenced on Friday to six months imprisonment in the death of Sturlin Minion Jr., according to the Wayne County Sheriff’s office. Court records show that she pleaded guilty in July to involuntary manslaughter.
Brown and the boy’s father, Sturlin Markese Minion Sr., 33, were charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree child abuse, and firearm violations. Minion was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Minion pleaded no contest in the case and is set to be sentenced on Sept. 20, online court records show.
Mom sentenced after 5-year-old boy fatally shoots himself while jumping on bed with loaded gun
A Michigan mother was sentenced after her unsupervised 5-year-old son shot himself in the face as he played with a loaded gun left on a dresser while jumping on a bed in his apartment.
