The deputy then saw she’d been shot in the back and the bullet had exited from her stomach area.
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The poster girl for “gun sense” is now in the hospital after she was shot in the back by her 4-year-old son.
The deputy provided first aid to Gilt until Putnam County paramedics arrived and took her to UF Health in Gainesville, where she was reported in stable condition.
A statement released by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday points out that Florida law makes it a misdemeanor for anyone to store or leave a loaded gun in a place where a child could access it. Officers said he was not strapped into his child booster seat when they reached the scene.
The boy, who wasn’t injured, is with relatives. The police also notified the Florida Department of Children and Family Services and continue to investigate exactly how the boy was able to get ahold of the gun and also if criminal charges are warranted.
“She was shot through the seat and the round went through her back”.
What appears to be Ms Gilt on Facebook shows she is a passionate supporter of the right to bear arms, including pictures of her with weapons and with a cowboy hat perched on her head.
Gilt flagged down a passing Sheriff’s deputy and told him that she had been shot. “The only other occupant of the vehicle was the victim’s four-year-old son, who was unharmed”. “It was a. 45 caliber [handgun]”. Her son wasn’t harmed and was reunited with family members.
Unfortunately for Gilt, her young son shot her in the back while they were driving in her vehicle.
“Even my 4-year-old gets jacked up to target shoot the.22”, Jamie Gilt wrote.
“She was sitting in the driver seat and he was in the back seat, behind her”.
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One of her two Facebook pages – a community page called “Jamie Gilt for Gun Sense” – has a profile picture of her with a long gun, black cowboy hat and staring intently into the camera.
