A 2-year-old boy, Ibn-Kareem Lawson, died after an accidental shooting in the Olney section of Philadelphia on November 9, 2017. The child found a handgun in the basement of a home on the 200 block of West Godfrey Avenue and shot himself once in the head around 2:15 p.m. He was taken to Einstein Medical Center and pronounced dead at 2:29 p.m.

Police later recovered the handgun in a trash can behind the residence; the firearm had been reported stolen in Cheltenham in 2015. Homicide Captain John Ryan said the death was being treated as a tragic accident and investigators planned forensic work to determine who had possessed the stolen weapon. Authorities did not expect to file charges, and the District Attorney’s Office said the investigation remained ongoing. Other people were in the house at the time, but their identities and relationships to the child were not released.

Are there readers who knew the family or who saw anyone near that West Godfrey Avenue home on November 9, 2017?