A two-year-old boy, Corey Davis Jr., died on January 30, 2020, in Mobile, Alabama, after he found a loaded handgun in a motel room on the I-65 Service Road and accidentally shot himself. The child had been staying at the Red Roof Inn with his mother. He was rushed to a local hospital but was pronounced dead from his wound.

Police reports describe a chaotic scene at the motel, with the mother covered in blood and screaming for help. The Mobile Police Department later arrested the mother, Dyneisha Harris, and a man named Tony Fowler; both were charged with manslaughter based on the accessibility of the firearm that caused the fatal, self-inflicted wound.

What details about the motel stay or how the firearm came to be in the room might help explain how this happened?