JaMecca Smith was a 6-year-old first-grade honor roll student who died from a gunshot to the head inside her family’s southeast Atlanta apartment on a Saturday morning in November 2015. She reportedly found a loaded handgun tucked between the cushions of a sofa while in the home with at least four other children and two adults present. Police arrived just before 11 a.m. and found JaMecca deceased.

Her father, 25-year-old Demarqo Smith, briefly left the apartment after the shooting, returned to speak with detectives and was arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct; he was held at the Fulton County jail without bond. JaMecca was remembered as a cheerful child who loved the movie Frozen and had a gap-toothed smile; her mother was not present at the time and the family was left devastated.

Does anyone have information about how the firearm came to be accessible in the apartment or remember details from that day that could help clarify what happened?