NEW: Victim Identified, 2-Year-Old Fatally Shot Mom in Back

MILWAUKEE — The victim has been identified and new details have emerged in the Tuesday shooting that left a 26-year-old woman dead after a child reportedly discovered a handgun in the back seat of the car they were traveling in.

According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's office, 26-year-old Patrice Price was shot in the back by her two-and-a-half-year-old child, after the child retrieved a firearm that slid out from under the driver's seat.

Price's child reportedly shot the 40-caliber firearm through the seat, killing her mom.

The driver’s mother and one-year-old child were in the front passenger seat. The children were not in car seats.

Deputies also found a security officer’s gun belt, belonging to the victim’s boyfriend, on the floor of the front passenger seat. The 40-caliber firearm was found on the floor of the back seat behind the driver’s seat.

Sheriff’s detectives are conducting the investigation.

Tuesday at about 10:30 a.m., Milwaukee County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about a subject who had been shot in a vehicle on WIS-175/US-41 southbound just south of Washington Boulevard. Other motorists stopped and pushed the vehicle out of traffic before deputies arrived. Deputies removed the driver from the vehicle and performed CPR until MFD emergency medical personnel arrived.