11/01/2026
💔 Jessinya Mina was just 22 years old when her worst fear came true.
She had explicitly told her boyfriend: "No guns in my house." She was a young mother of two, and she knew the dangers fi****ms posed to her children.
But he brought one anyway.
And he left it where her two-year-old could reach it.
Jessinya was lying in bed on a Friday night when her toddler found the unsecured weapon. In the hands of a child barely out of diapers, that gun became the instrument of unthinkable tragedy.
The two-year-old shot and killed his own mother.
Think about that. A baby - still learning to talk, still needing help getting dressed, still believing the world is safe and loving - accidentally became the person who took his mother's life.
Jessinya's sister's words still echo: "Because of her boyfriend's carelessness, his arrogance, his irresponsibility, and neglecting my sister's wishes of never having a gun in her house, she's gone forever."
This young mother fought to keep guns out of her home because she understood the risk. She knew her children were curious. She knew toddlers put everything in their mouths, grab everything they can reach, explore everything around them.
She was trying to protect them. But she couldn't protect herself from someone else's negligence.
Now two children will grow up without their mother. They'll have to "live off of memories and stories" because an 18-year-old couldn't be bothered to secure his weapon.
California has strong Child Access Prevention laws specifically designed to prevent exactly this kind of tragedy. But laws are meaningless when people ignore them.
Jessinya should be watching her children grow up. She should be celebrating their milestones, kissing their scraped knees, reading them bedtime stories.
Instead, her babies are motherless because someone else valued convenience over safety.
A two-year-old's hands should hold toys, not weapons. A mother's bedroom should be a place of rest, not a crime scene. A family should be whole, not shattered by preventable carelessness.
This wasn't an accident. This was the predictable result of leaving a loaded gun where a toddler could access it.
Don't let your family experience this heartbreak. If you have fi****ms in your home, they need to be properly secured. Period. We're here to help at I-65 and Moffett Rd. Call (251) 471-1137 or comment with questions. Because no family should be destroyed by preventable tragedy.
