Police want to know how boy got gunPALATKA, Fla. — Sheriff’s investigators in north Florida were trying to determine how a 4-year-old boy got his hands on the gun he used to shoot his mother as she drove a pickup truck.Putnam County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Joseph Wells said 31-year-old Jamie Gilt of Jacksonville owns the .45-caliber gun the boy fired Tuesday afternoon.A deputy saw her behaving frantically inside the truck, which was stopped partially in the road.The deputy then saw she’d been shot in the back and the bullet had exited from her stomach area.Wells said Gilt told deputies her son had accidentally shot her. She was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition, she said. Investigators had not been able to interview her, Wells said.The boy, who wasn’t injured, is with relatives. The Florida Department of Children and Families is also investigating.

Warrant didn’t keep suspect off planeSPOKANE, Wash. — A man wanted by Idaho authorities in an attack that left a church pastor seriously wounded was able to board a commercial airliner in Boise, Idaho, and travel to Washington, D.C., this week despite an attempted murder warrant for his arrest.Kyle Odom drove from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, after the shooting more than six hours to the airport in Boise, and departed Monday morning, according to the Transportation Security Administration.The agency said it was not informed of law enforcement’s interest in Odom until Monday evening.Odom will be held in jail pending a hearing scheduled for April 6 in Washington, where the only issue is whether the Idaho warrant for attempted first-degree murder in his case is valid.

Knife investigation will take weeksLOS ANGELES — The knife reportedly found at O.J. Simpson’s former estate likely isn’t connected to the killings of his ex-wife and her friend, a law enforcement official said.But it will take at least three weeks to know for sure.Investigators are examining the knife for DNA or other material that could possibly link the weapon to the 1994 murders of Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend. Results aren’t expected for at least three weeks, police said.