DoorDash driver charged after her 11-year-old son fatally shoots his 6-year-old sister in the head when their mom left them alone to grab food, cops say

A parent successful Michigan is accused of leaving her 5 children unsocial successful her conveyance with an unsecured weapon wrong to prime up a DoorDash order, starring to her 11-year-old lad shooting her 6-year-old girl dead.

Tonya Charisse-Annice Johnson, 41, has been charged with 3 counts of second-degree child abuse, failing to securely store a firearm, resulting successful death, and 4 counts of felony firearm, the Detroit Police Department announced.

The suspect appeared successful tribunal connected Thursday, wherever much details successful the lawsuit came to light.

On Monday, astatine astir noon, Johnson and her 5 children were successful a conveyance successful the parking batch connected the 9700 artifact of Harper Avenue successful Detroit. The parent was a DoorDash driver, and she had driven to a edifice determination to prime up food, section Fox affiliate WJBK reported.

Johnson is alleged to person near her 5 children — ages 2 to 11-years-old — unattended successful the conveyance portion she was wrong the restaurant. There was besides an unsecured handgun successful the vehicle, constabulary said, and the defendant's 11-year-old lad recovered it.

The lad fired the gun, striking his 6-year-old sister successful the head, "fatally wounding her," constabulary said. Officers were called to the country astatine astir 12:06 p.m. and "observed the kid suffering from a gunshot coiled to the head."

The shooting unfortunate was brought to an country hospital, wherever she was pronounced dead. Her sanction is unclear astatine this clip of writing.

Police investigated the shooting, starring to them bringing charges against Johnson.

Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Aniela Bosca was harsh successful her valuation of the shooting.

"There is going to beryllium life-long trauma that this young antheral is going to endure arsenic a effect of shooting his sister," Bosca said, per WJBK. "Knowing that helium killed her, the different children that were successful the conveyance watching this happen, and this was negligible."

Johnson reportedly wiped distant tears arsenic she appeared virtually successful tribunal connected Thursday. Her defence lawyer said "nobody feels worse close now" than the defendant.

She is acceptable to look backmost successful tribunal connected March 13.