Nine-year-old Marquis Thomas Jr. died from a single gunshot wound to the head inside his family’s home in Marrero, Louisiana, on a Wednesday evening in February 2019. Family members initially reported the shooting as an accidental, self-inflicted wound, but investigators from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office found the scene evidence inconsistent with that account.

Under further questioning the family’s story changed. Authorities say Marquis’s 18-year-old cousin, Kamone Thomas, was involved and that the shooting occurred while Kamone was attempting to take a gun away from the child. Kamone was taken into custody and charged with negligent homicide, obstruction of justice, and possession of marijuana.

Marquis’s death underscores the dangers of firearms in the home and left the family coping with the loss of a child and the legal fallout for another. Did anyone in the Marrero area have contact with Marquis or the family around that February evening who can shed light on what happened?