Woman shot and killed with her own gun by 2-year-old while shopping at Idaho Walmart

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77. Adding a link to the Spokane newspaper.

I drove through Hayden over twenty years ago. I've been to Blackfoot too. I know what the areas look like, and that's it.

The woman worked at INEL. Whoops, it's had a name change: Idaho National Laboratory.

Toddler shoots, kills mother in North Idaho Wal-Mart

December 31, 2014 in Idaho
Becky Kramer And Nina Culver Staff writers

A nuclear research scientist died Tuesday after her 2-year-old son pulled a loaded pistol from her purse and shot her while she was shopping at the Wal-Mart store in Hayden.
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Rutledge, a 29-year-old resident of Blackfoot, Idaho, died instantly.
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Rutledge, an employee of the Idaho National Laboratory, was visiting family in Hayden with her husband, Colt. She had taken the children to Wal-Mart so they could spend their holiday gift cards. Her son, who was riding in a shopping cart, got a hold of the loaded pistol in her purse and shot her at 10:20 a.m. in the store’s electronics department.
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She grew up as Veronica Hendricks in Harrison, where she was the 2004 valedictorian of Kootenai High School. She attended North Idaho College, graduated from the University of Idaho, and went to work for the Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls, which supports the U.S. Department of Energy in nuclear and energy research and national defense.
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Staff writer Becky Kramer can be reached at [e-mail] or [phone]. Nina Culver can be reached at [e-mail] or [phone].

North Idaho College is where Sarah Palin went to school.