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On March 12, 2018, a 1-year-old girl, Ja'Mariel La'Nique Tanksley, was fatally shot at a residence on Green Acres Drive in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The child was in the arms of a babysitter, Kimberly Egbuka, who had been watching her for a friend, Georgiante Purdiman. The babysitter’s brother, Isaac D. Egbuka, arrived intoxicated and a domestic argument between the siblings escalated into a physical confrontation while the babysitter was holding the infant.

During the struggle, a gun discharged and the infant sustained a gunshot wound to the head. The child was transported to a hospital but died shortly afterward. Isaac Egbuka, then 29, was arrested and held on a $750,000 bond.

Does anyone have information about the household or the events that night that could shed more light on what happened?