Janiyah Jenkins was a 4-year-old Black girl found with a gunshot wound inside a DeKalb County home on Bouldercrest Road in Atlanta shortly before 10 p.m. on March 28, 2022. A relative rushed her to the hospital; she died of her injuries the next day. She left behind a twin brother and grieving relatives.

Investigators and reporting focused on an uncle, Levante Cummings, who was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children. Arrest reports say a handgun had been left in plain view and was accessible to Janiyah inside the home, and some accounts described the death as resulting from an unsecured gun being reachable by a small child. The child’s mother told reporters she believed the shooting was an accident and said her brother loved the child and tried to help after the gun went off.

Does anyone have additional information about the circumstances inside the home that night or about the legal status of the case after the initial charges?