Authorities said that during a visit to her family’s Kenwood apartment last Sunday, a south suburban woman and concealed carry holder decided to take a shower as the home’s four young children, including her 5-year-old foster brother, settled down for naps.

But before taking the shower, prosecutors said Danya Bell made a decision she’d come to regret minutes later: She tucked her purse containing her loaded 9mm Glock handgun underneath a pile of toys and clothing in the boy’s room.

Moments later, Bell and her sister were startled by a gunshot and found that the boy, Demeir Aston Douglas, shot himself between the eyes in his bedroom, according to prosecutors.

Bell appeared on felony child endangerment charges on Wednesday before a judge, who denied a detention petition and allowed the

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