Authorities today released the identity of a man found shot to death Tuesday afternoon in Hoover, possibly the victim of an accidental shooting at the hands of his toddler son. The father — identified Wednesday as Divine Vaniah Chambliss — suffered a gunshot wound to the head, Hoover police said in a statement. Police Investigating Fatal Shooting at The Cliffs at Rocky Ridge Apartments This afternoon at 3:06 p.m., Hoover... http://t.co/xKShZKARHB — Hoover Police Dept (@HooverPD) August 19, 2015 
 
 "It's certainly a tragedy, regardless of how it occurred," Hoover police Capt. The 2-year-old child's mother had returned to the home at The Cliffs at Rocky Ridge Apartments and found Chambliss' body before calling 911, NBC affiliate WVTM reported. Gregg Rector said Tuesday. The toddler and his father were believed to be the only two people home when the incident occurred. The mother of Chambliss' children was at work, and their daughter was at school. "However, this investigation is still in its very early stages and detectives are not completely ruling out other possibilities," police said.
– Police say a 31-year-old Alabama man may have been shot dead by his 2-year-old son, NBC News reports. The boy's mother returned home from work yesterday to find Divine Chambliss lying dead on a bed, according to AL.com. NBC reports Chambliss had been shot in the head. There was no sign of an intruder, and no one else was thought to have been at the apartment at the time of the shooting. According to a statement, police in Hoover are continuing to investigate, "and detectives are not completely ruling out other possibilities." But at the moment, it appears that the toddler accidentally shot his father. Police are trying to figure out how such a young child could have fired the gun, NBC reports.