On April 21, 2016, 2-year-old Shaquille Kornegay was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head at a home in the 2600 block of Lawn Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. She was transported to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The child had been at home with her father and siblings when she located a loaded handgun that had been left unsecured.

Her father, Courtenay S. Block, 24 at the time, told investigators he had been sleeping and woke to his daughter crying, then found her injured and standing next to the bed. He acknowledged seeing his gun on the floor near her and, according to reports, attempted to hide the firearm in a bathroom floor vent covered with a child’s shirt before carrying Shaquille outside to seek help from neighbors.

Charges initially included child endangerment, tampering with physical evidence, and armed criminal action; prosecutors later upgraded charges to second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death. In January 2017 Block pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child, felony child abuse, and tampering with physical evidence. Does anyone have information about the circumstances in that home or recall anything from that neighborhood around April 2016?