‘Horrific tragedy’: 3-year-old fatally shoots self with dad’s gun at Florida Burger King

A 3-year-old boy died Thursday after accidentally shooting himself in the face with his father’s gun at a Burger King restaurant drive-thru in Polk County, according to a report from our sister station WKMG.What happened?Around 6:23 p.m., the child’s father pulled through the drive-thru to pay for dinner, pulling out his credit card to do so, Judd explained. However, the sale reportedly wouldn’t go through.“He’s only been here about four months from Connecticut,” Judd stated. “The victim — dad and mom both are managers and well-thought-of at Lowe’s, and they moved south to get in the warm weather. So he’s had problems with the credit card seeing that their sales (are) in Florida.”As a result, the father parked outside, working to get the credit card to function, Judd said.But while he was dealing with that, he took a firearm out of his waistband and laid it down because it was getting “uncomfortable,” the sheriff added. It should be noted that the father was apparently permitted to car