BATON ROUGE — A toddler is dead after accidentally being shot by a gun on Sumrall Drive on Friday morning.

Baton Rouge Police said the three-year-old boy died after finding an unsecured, loaded handgun that went off. 

The toddler was identified as Emouri Woodard.

Officials said the shooting on Sumrall just off Plank Road happened around 7:30 a.m.

Police Chief T.J. Morse said that at least four people have been detained after the fatal shooting, which he said happened as the child was about to leave for school.