A mother is behind bars after her 5-year-old daughter was killed Sunday.
The child's mother, 28-year-old Laderika Smith, was arrested on charges of second-degree murder.
Smith told police she locked her daughter inside the home while she went to the store. When she returned a short time later, she said she found her daughter lying on the bedroom floor with a gunshot wound to the head.
Relatives are asking how the child was able to come in contact with the firearm.
"You got to think first. If you got kids in the house, anything could happen. Kids do climb and things happen," said Smith's cousin, Verlinda Williams.
Williams said she was at work when she received a call that her cousin's daughter had been shot.
"When they told me that, I was like, 'Shot? How (did) she get shot? Where (was) she? She's a young kid, where could (she) be at to be shot?'" said Williams.
Police said the child was home alone when she came in contact with a .38-caliber revolver.
"I'm very shocked, and it's just devastating to know that something like that could happen in my family," Williams said.
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