3-year-old girl accidentally shoots her pregnant mom while playing with father’s loaded gun

A 3-year-old girl accidentally shot and wounded her pregnant mother while playing with her father’s loaded gun.

The girl, a 1-year-old boy, and their pregnant mother were waiting in a car parked outside a northwestern Indiana thrift store while the woman’s boyfriend was inside the store. The man, who is the girl’s father, apparently left a loaded gun in the car and the girl got hold of the gun and accidentally shot the pregnant mother. 

The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon in Merrillville, Indiana. The woman, who has now been identified as 21-year-old Shaniqua Thomas, is…