Zion Israel was a two-year-old girl who died from a gunshot wound on November 20, 2019, in the 200 block of Tay Road in the Glasgow Village neighborhood of St. Louis County, Missouri. First responders were called around 3:35 p.m. after an initial report of electrocution; on arrival officers found Zion with a critical gunshot injury. She was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Detectives concluded the wound was self-inflicted by the child after she accessed a loaded firearm that had been placed in the top drawer of a dresser, within her reach. Investigators treated the case as parental negligence tied to the storage of the weapon. Prosecutors charged the victim’s father, 34-year-old Uziel Israel, with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child on November 22, 2019; he was taken into custody on November 25, 2019.

Are there readers who lived in the Glasgow Village area in 2019 who remember anything about this case or the household that might help build a clearer timeline?