--- description: Alexis Wiederholt, 26, recounts learning that her 5-year-old son shot her 9-month-old infant title: Mom Recounts Moment 5-Year-Old Shot and Killed Baby image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Mom Recounts Moment 5-Year-Old Shot and Killed Baby by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 20, 2015 8:54 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 20, 2015 8:54 PM CUT She had just put her 9-month-old down for a nap, turned on cartoons for the older kids and was headed for the dishwasher when she heard a strange “pop” come from the bedroom of the Missouri home. Alexis Wiederholt, 26, said that as she rushed to investigate the noise, her 5-year-old son appeared and said something that didn’t make any sense to her in the moment. “I’m sorry, Mom. I shot Corbin.” Weiderholt ran past to the pack-and-play where Corbin, her always-smiling youngest, should have been resting peacefully. “I walked in and there was my baby, lying there, bleeding,” the young mother told NBC News… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/im-sorry-mom-recounts-moment-5-year-old-shot-killed-n289541 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3675331/boy-shoots-baby-mom-recounts-story/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3675331/boy-shoots-baby-mom-recounts-story/"},"headline":"Mom Recounts Moment 5-Year-Old Shot and Killed Baby","datePublished":"2015-01-20T20:54:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:43:33.675Z","description":"\"I'm sorry, Mom. I shot Corbin.\"","url":"https://time.com/3675331/boy-shoots-baby-mom-recounts-story/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3675331/boy-shoots-baby-mom-recounts-story/","name":"Mom Recounts Moment 5-Year-Old Shot and Killed Baby"}}]}] ```