Read What Happened After Six Year Old Boy Mistook His Father’s Gun For A Toy

The six-year-old son of an Aba-based lawyer, name withheld, has allegedly killed their house help after mistaking his father’s gun for a toy in Aba, Abia State, Punch reports.

Sources say the young child picked his father’s gun from his bedroom, mistaking it for a toy gun and oblivious to the fact that it was loaded.

“The child pointed the gun at the maid and playfully said, ‘I will kill you,’ and upon pulling the trigger, the gun went off and a bullet hit the housemaid,” a source told Punch reporters.

According to the Police Public Relations Officer, Abia State Command, Ogbonnaya Nta, who confirmed the incident, the case has been transferred to the state Department of Criminal Investigation.

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He added that investigations by police detectives from the Ogbor Hill Police Division, Aba, into the killing, which can best be described as a tragic accident,  have commenced.