UPDATED: Alabama man dies after gun in diaper bag goes off outside a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant
Al.com quotes the Jefferson County coroner's office as saying Tuesday that 22-year-old Timothy Roshun Smith Jr. has died.
Police in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills say Smith was preparing to change his daughter's diaper in a car outside the pizza restaurant Saturday when a gun stored in the diaper bag went off, hitting them both. Police say the girl was shot in the leg and the man in the chest. The girl's injuries weren't considered life threatening.
Lt. Michael Keller says investigators believe the man was searching inside the diaper bag when he hit the weapon and it fired accidentally.
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