15-year-old son of LAPD officers killed himself with gun found in home. L.A. County to pay $495,000
The gun was locked in a safebox.
But on Dec. 17, 2019, Aiden Smith, the son of two divorced Los Angeles police officers, guessed the code: his mother’s birth year, according to court records.
The 15-year-old took out his stepfather’s gun and fatally shot himself.
It was the second time Aiden, who told doctors he was suicidal and plagued by hallucinations of demons, had found a gun in the La...