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Two parents have been arrested after their four-year-old son accidentally shot himself dead in a car while his father was shopping in a Colorado weed dispensary.  

The shooting occurred in a parking lot outside the Maggie's Farm dispensary in Manitou Springs around 12pm on Tuesday.

Investigators with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office and Manitou Springs Police Department said the boy - who was not named - was in a car with his mother Ashlynne Perez and younger sibling waiting for his father Carlos Perez to make a purchase inside the shop.  

The four-year-old managed to find a gun and appeared to fire it as his own head, dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Ashlynne, 25, and Carlos, 26, were both arrested and charged with criminally negligent child abuse resulting in death.