Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe mother of a 2-year-old boy who was accidentally shot and killed during a family visit to Central Florida has been charged with culpable negligence, according to Osceola County officials. Brayden Tennyson, 2, died in Kissimmee, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said.Investigators said that a 4-year-old accidentally shot him with his mother’s gun after the child found it in a car. The family had traveled from Georgia to Florida to celebrate Brayden’s birthday. The sheriff’s office announced Monday that Brayden’s mother, Shakelia Tennyson, has been charged with culpable negligence. She is currently back in Georgia, and the case has been referred to the state attorney’s office.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The mother of a 2-year-old boy who was accidentally shot and killed during a family visit to Central Florida has been charged with culpable negligence, according to Osceola County officials. <\/p>\n
Brayden Tennyson, 2, died in Kissimmee, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n
Investigators said that a 4-year-old accidentally shot him with his mother’s gun after the child found it in a car. <\/p>\n
The family had traveled from Georgia to Florida to celebrate Brayden’s birthday. <\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office announced Monday that Brayden’s mother, Shakelia Tennyson, has been charged with culpable negligence. <\/p>\n
She is currently back in Georgia, and the case has been referred to the state attorney’s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mother charged after 2-year-old son accidentally shot, killed while vacationing in Florida Updated: 4:13 PM EDT Jul 20,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25676,139693,2353,30114,141850,28,30,29,1853,2230,1975,217,1961,660,141849,141851,2631],"class_list":["post-346439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-birthday","tag-brayden-tennyson","tag-child","tag-culpable-negligence","tag-family-visit","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-georgia","tag-gun","tag-kissimmee","tag-monday","tag-mother","tag-office","tag-osceola-county-official","tag-shakelia-tennyson","tag-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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