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Shocking video captured the moment a 3-year-old Florida girl shot herself with a handgun — while a relative celebrated a football touchdown on TV. The chilling footage posted by WPLG shows Serenity picking up the pistol at her home in Miami Dade on Saturday after Orlando Young, 23, jumped up during the game. A bang is immediately heard in the footage and the toddler is hurt. “It looks as if she is getting ready to pick up the gun, the gun went off and I guess the bullet went through her finger,” Serenity’s grandmother, Robin Fuller, told the outlet. “The...

NASSAU COUNTY, Fla. — A teenage mother is under arrest after she put what she thought was cocaine in her baby’s bottle, but was actually fentanyl, and the baby died, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said Wednesday. Deputies were called to Deerfield Country Club Road in Callahan on Monday, June 26 about a 9-month-old baby boy who was not breathing and had no pulse, Leeper said.

A Florida mom faces a number of charges after police say she brought a gun to a parent-teacher conference an elementary school. Brenzina Jones attended a meeting at Brentwood Elementary School meeting in Miami Gardens Thursday night. Prior to exiting the campus, the 35-year-old mother reportedly warned the security at the front desk of her willingness to protect her child, WSVN reports. "I don’t play about somebody playing with my kid," said Jones according to court documents by WSVN. "I’ll shoot this [expletive] up. The documents later noted that Jones "proceeded to open her purse and recklessly display the butt...

The mother of a 7-year-old who was raped and murdered got some measure of payback by helping firefighters burn down the Orange Park, Fla., home once owned by the convicted killer. The man is now serving a life-sentence, and his residence, where the crime occurred, was torched as part of a training exercise for local firefighters.