No Charges Being Filed in Freeway Shooting of Mother by Child

There will be no charges in the April 26 incident where a woman was fatally shot by her 2-year-old on the freeway.

According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation has been completed and no charges are being filed against the woman’s boyfriend.

Around 10:30 AM on April 26, Patrice Price, 26, was driving along U.S. 175 coming up on the stadium interchange. Her two-and-a-half year old child found a gun that had slid from under the driver's seat. The gun went off, the bullet went through the seat hitting and killing her.

Friends said Price was driving her boyfriend's car since her's had recently been stolen, along with her children's car seats. Detectives say a security officer's gun belt belonging to her boyfriend was also found in the car.

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