INDIANAPOLIS — A mother whose 3-year-old son got hold of her boyfriend’s gun and shot himself in a car in a DPW parking lot in August 2024 was sentenced Thursday.

On Dec. 11, 2025, Anaya Velasquez received a sentence of one year self-reporting to Community Corrections and one year of probation after she pleaded guilty to neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury.

The incident happened in the 2500 block of South Belmont Avenue , near West Raymond and South Harding streets, around 5 p.m. on Aug. 27, 2024. Velasquez was allegedly on the phone in the driver’s seat. Her boyfriend, Antreaun Rice, was allegedly playing with three other children in the parking lot.

Rice was previously sentenced to one year in prison and one year of community corrections for neglect of a de

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