3-year-old accidentally shoots his mom to death in family's car in a suburban Chicago supermarket parking lot

A 3-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother to death as the family was sitting in their car in a suburban Chicago supermarket parking lot, police said. The woman was shot Saturday in Dolton and pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.

The family was sitting in their car outside a Food 4 Less store when the boy somehow found the gun and fired it, striking his mother, police said. Authorities said the boy's father was in custody after indicating that he owned the gun.

The Chicago Sun-Times identified the victim as 22-year-old Dejah Bennet.