The horrific news of a woman shot at Walmart in Idaho has hit the world in the last days of 2014: a woman shopping with her infant 2 year-old son was killed after the little boy found a gun and took a shot.

In a piece of news that seems straight out of an urban legend, it seems a woman was shot at Walmart in Idaho last Tuesday, as she was doing some last-minute shopping while spending Christmas gifts, along with her infant son and three little girls that were relatives to the woman.

According to The New York Times, the scene of the woman shot at Walmart in Idaho last Tuesday was "shatteringly ordinary," as the whole thing happened as the mother left her child unattended for a little while and he discovered a gun in his mother's purse, firing it unknowingly.

The woman shot at Walmart in Idaho was 29 year-old Veronica Rutledge, a nuclear research scientist shopping with her toddler son and three young girls that were also within their family. According to Fox News, she was found dead in the electronics department of the Hayden store, in the state's Kootenai County.

An Idaho native, Rutledge worked at the Idaho National Laboratory and was actually from Blackfoot (in the southeast area of the state), but she was in the area for the holidays as she visited relatives.

According to The Independent, Rutledge had a permit to carry a concealed weapon in her person, but the logic says that she couldn't have had the safety catch engaged, as the toddler (who obviously had neither experience handling weapons nor knowledge of what he was doing) was able to shoot all too easily.

Rutledge died within minutes of being shot, before the emergency services were able to reach where she was.

The sheriff's office has put the case of the woman shot at Walmart in Idaho as an unfortunate accident, and the children have been taken to the home of a nearby relative.