Gilt was shot in the head while she was turning.
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She could face charges for allowing a minor to access a gun.
During Tuesday’s press conference, Deloach said Gilt hasn’t been arrested.
“Investigators discovered the child removed himself from the seat, presumably to grab a toy from the floorboard, saw the gun, picked it up and accidentally fired”, DeLoach said.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday filed an affidavit with local prosecutors asking that Gilt be charged with the second-degree misdemeanor, which carries a penalty of up to 180 days in jail, Capt. Gator DeLoach told reporters.
A deputy who was patrolling State Road 20 that afternoon noticed a truck that was stopped partly in the travel lanes near the intersection of Rowland Avenue, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
The 4-year-old was not in his booster seat.
How long it will take the state attorney’s office to review the case and make a recommendation on charge is unclear.
She is recovering at a Florida hospital in stable condition, and her son is with relatives.
Thirty-one-year-old Jamie Gilt and her 4-year-old son were on their way to pick up a horse in Putnam County on March 8 when she was injured.
She realized she had been shot and said her immediate concern was for her son.
‘As the deputy slowed to check on the vehicle, he observed an adult female in the driver’s seat motioning to him as if she needed assistance’.
The boy was not hurt in the incident, deputies said. Gilt, a vocal proponent of gun rights who frequently wrote about shootin’ stuff on her (since deleted) firearms-focused Facebook page, had only hours before posted that her four-year-old “gets jacked up to target shoot the.22” – though, the gun he actually shot her with was a.45.
“It is of paramount importance to make certain that guns do not fall into the hands of children”, DeLoach said during a Tuesday briefing.
The Florida Department of Children and Families opened a child protective investigation as a result of the accident, spokesman John Harrell said last week.
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She was previously arrested in 2013 on a felony count of grand theft retail after police said she stole five pairs of shorts worth $455 from a Dillards in Jacksonville. The message below it said that guns are not the answer, but calling 911 is.
