Rebel T3 1100 D shutter button is "freezing" or "locking up"

Practicing with my Rebel T3 1100 D outdoors and my shutter button is locking up making the picture impossible to capture. This is happening intermittently, meaning, I haven't seen a pattern. Eventually, after turning the camera off and on a few times, I can refocus on another "subject" and capture a shot.
I was wondering what I'm doing wrong. The manual does not cover this particular problem that I'm having.
A younger friend, he's a nurse who does photography on the side, shot with my T3 last week and he encountered the shutter button "freezing up" or "locking up", so he was unable to take the picture. He said it shouldn't do that, but isn't familiar with the EOS cameras. He suspected possibly it's a problem for "warranty" to look at or something set somewhere in the camera that I haven't figured out. Because, later on, he shot more with it, and then all of a sudden he couldn't get a picture again, he thought it might be an actual camera problem or bug. Advised me to send back while my warranty is in effect.
You push down on the shutter button, subject comes in focus, then you push down further to capture the shot and the button does not function.
Please help if you know anything about a shutter button problem with the EOS T3.
Thank you so much for your time.
Julie

AF is controlled by the camera UNLESS you turn the AF / MF switch (located on the lens) to MF (manual focus). From the way I'm reading the info you've added you are trying to shoot in low light, which is very taxing to the AF systems on most cameras, especially with consumer grade lenses. You'll often read the term "fast glass" or a "fast lens" which refers to lenses with wider max apertures, which allows more light in for the AF to work with. One of the more common work arounds is to set the camera to use ONLY the single center AF point. When that doesn't work it's time to use MF but without a focusing aid (such as the split prism used before AF) it's tough to hit aa perfect focus regularly.
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