Man kills himself in freak gun accident as he tries to calm crying child

An American man fatally shot himself when he tried to catch a gun that fell from his holster while he was trying to calm his crying child in the back seat of a car.

Police in Berwick, Pennsylvania said 28-year-old Kenneth Morris reached through the car's rear driver's side door to comfort his son when the .357-calibre gun fell from Mr Morris' shoulder holster.