Four-year-old Yanelly Marie Christine Nelly Zoller died on September 14, 2017, at her grandparents’ home in Tampa, Florida. She had been looking for sweets in her grandmother’s purse, reportedly found a gun inside the bag, pulled the trigger and was fatally shot in the chest. Both grandparents, Christine and Michael Zoller, were in the house; the gun was legally owned. Her father, Shane Zoller, arrived to pick her up for a planned trip to splash pads and encountered police at the scene.

Authorities ruled the death an accident and no arrests or charges were filed. Nelly’s mother, Lizette Hernandez, who was 28 weeks pregnant at the time, expressed distrust of Shane’s differing accounts about how the shooting occurred and sought full custody of her 19-month-old son. The family had been relying on the grandparents to help care for Nelly.

What can readers who knew Nelly or her family add about the day or about how the family coped afterward?