Dad faces gun charge after boy accidentally shot, killed mom

By DON BABWIN
Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Police say the father of a 3-year-old boy who accidentally shot his mother to death in a Chicago suburb is facing a misdemeanor gun charge. Dolton Police Chief Robert Collins said Monday evening that 23-year-old Romell Watson will be charged with unlawful use of a weapon. The shooting happened Saturday night in the community of Dolton, just south of Chicago. Collins says the boy was sitting in a car seat in the back seat of the car when he somehow found a gun and began playing with it. He says his parents did not know he had the weapon before it fired, striking 22-year-old Daejah Bennett in the neck.