Three-year-old Cash Wilkerson, also known as Kash, died on July 8, 2017, after a gunshot to the head at his family’s apartment in the 3600 block of Duchess Drive North in Memphis. Emergency responders took Cash to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in critical condition; he died a short time later. The child reportedly found his father’s gun, which had been in a case, and it discharged.

Investigators focused on the boy’s father, Cortez Wilkerson, saying his accounts of how the shooting occurred conflicted with physical evidence and concluding he was the only person who could have fired the weapon. Wilkerson was initially charged with reckless homicide plus drug and weapons offenses; charges were later upgraded to first-degree murder and aggravated child neglect and a grand jury returned an indictment for first-degree murder, aggravated child neglect, aggravated child endangerment, and aggravated child abuse. A judge later dismissed the first-degree murder charge and reduced it to reckless homicide, and prosecutors subsequently sought to reinstate first-degree murder via grand jury action.

Does anyone have additional local details or firsthand information about the apartment complex, the timeline that night, or the family’s situation?