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Indiana police say boy, 3, fatally shot father

SALEM, Ind. – Police said a 3-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father after finding the man’s loaded handgun in a southern Indiana home.

Indiana State Police Sgt. Jerry Goodin said the 33-year-old Martinsville man had brought his gun with him Friday to a home he was remodeling in Salem, about 25 miles northwest of Louisville, Ky.

Goodin said the man, his wife, their three children and a juvenile relative were at the home when the 3-year-old boy apparently found the gun and it accidentally discharged, fatally wounding the man. No one else was injured.

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