Late one November afternoon in Lancaster, South Carolina, 10-year-old Dylan Twitty was found with a gunshot wound between two mobile homes in a trailer park and died after being taken to the Medical University of South Carolina-Lancaster Medical Center. Bystanders had attempted to help, and family members initially believed he had been shot while playing near his home.

Investigators later concluded the shooting was an accidental discharge inside a friend’s home. Dylan and another 10-year-old had been playing after school when the friend retrieved a 9mm pistol from under a mattress; the gun discharged in the living room, fatally wounding Dylan. In panic, the other boy moved Dylan’s body outside where older children discovered him after getting off the school bus.

The mother of the boy who fired the shot was arrested and charged with unlawful neglect of a child for leaving a loaded handgun accessible. Dylan was a straight-A student recently inducted into his school’s Beta Club and had wanted to become a police officer. Does anyone have information about Dylan, his family, or what happened that day?