A pregnant mother and her unborn child were fatally shot inside their Ohio home after her 2-year-old son mistakenly got a hold of his fathers handgun, police said Tuesday.

Laura Ilg, 31, was 33 weeks pregnant when she called police Friday afternoon to report that her son got a hold of a gun and shot her in the back, Norwalk police said in a press release published by local newspaper the Norwalk Reflector.

Responding officers kicked down the front door to find Ilg still conscious with her toddler in the main upstairs bedroom, next to a handgun.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Norwalk Police Chief David Smith told reporters that Ilg told officers that her toddler got into the primary bedroom while she was doing laundry and began playing with the gun, local news outlet WOIO reported . Smith said the gun belonged to the toddlers father, who was at work at the time of the incident.