The supermarket closed for the rest of the day. The shooting happened in the Wal-Mart store in Hayden, Idaho, a town about 40 miles (64km) north-east of Spokane. All the children were taken to a relative's house. Mr Miller said the man arrived shortly after the shooting. The woman's husband was not in the store when the shooting happened. "She was not the least bit irresponsible," Mr Rutledge said. The victim's father-in-law, Terry Rutledge, told the Associated Press that Ms Rutledge "was a beautiful, young, loving mother". "It appears to be a pretty tragic accident," Mr Miller said. Mr Miller said the young boy was left in a shopping trolley, reached into his mother's handbag and grabbed a small-calibre handgun, which discharged once.ĭeputies who responded to the Wal-Mart incident found Ms Rutledge dead, the sheriff's office said. The woman had a concealed weapons permit. The Idaho Falls laboratory supports the US Department of Energy in nuclear and energy research and national defence. She was an employee of the Idaho National Laboratory, the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, reported. She had been shopping with her son and three other children, Mr Miller said. Ms Rutledge was from Blackfoot in south-eastern Idaho, and her family were in the area to visit relatives. The woman was with four children in the store's electronics section when she was killed
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