A 13-year-old boy, Cameron Boone, was fatally shot in a Northwest Atlanta home during a sleepover in the early hours of July 28, 2026. Officers responding to a call arrived at about 3:46 a.m. and found Cameron unresponsive with a gunshot wound; emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene. The Fulton County Medical Examiner had not released a final determination as of early August 2026.

Those who were in the house reportedly told Cameron’s father, Anthony Boone, that his son had shot himself. Anthony and investigators have expressed skepticism about that explanation, in part because Cameron was right-handed while the wound was to the left side of his head, and because the accounts from people in the home have been described as conflicting. Anthony also said no one had called police before he arrived and found Cameron on a couch with his phone on his chest and a blanket over him.

The case remains an active investigation with no arrests, no publicly identified suspects, and no official classification of the death as of early August 2026. Anyone with information about what happened that night is asked to contact the Atlanta Police Department. Does anyone have information about who was at the sleepover or what happened in the house that night?