First Posted: Aug 04, 2021 12:40 AM EDT
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A 16-year-old boy in Oklahoma accidentally shot his mother while playing with a gun and then turned the gun on himself to commit suicide, police said.
According to PEOPLE, the Del City Police noted that the teen was playing with a pistol in the living room of their home in Del City, Oklahoma at around 11:20 p.m. on Saturday, when he accidentally fired the gun.
Police said a bullet went through the wall and struck his 36-year-old mother, Stephanie Rowshawne Jennings, in the head that resulted in her immediate death.