 621. Now to a tragedy for a family in Howard County tonight. A toddler is dead in what police are calling an accidental shooting inside the boy's home yesterday in Columbia. Howard County police say a handgun was not secured properly in the house on Harper's Farm Road. Detectives are still trying to figure out if the three-year-old shot himself or someone else shot him by accident. The boy's five-year-old brother and parents were home at the time.