A mother and father have been arrested after their 4-year-old twin boys were shot upon discovering a handgun hidden in a couch at their family home in Florida, authorities said.

Both children, who were not named, were critically wounded in the gunfire and rushed to AdventHealth East Orlando, where they remained in stable condition as of Monday night, officials told ClickOrlando.

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Their 39-year-old mother, Keishara Goodrum, was arrested on two counts of child neglect with great bodily harm while their father, Maurice Bright Jr., 40, is facing a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Goodrum told detectives she’d been drinking heavily the night before the shooting — which occurred early Saturday morning — and at one point grabbed her handgun, NBC News rep

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