Daijon DJ Wynn was 14 when he was fatally shot on Friday afternoon, August 23, 2019, in Birmingham, Alabama. He was sitting in the front passenger seat of a Dodge Challenger parked at an Exxon on Pinson Valley Parkway when a gun inside the car discharged and struck him.

Two other people were in the vehicle, including a 17-year-old friend in the back seat who was handling the firearm when it accidentally went off. The Tarrant Police Department investigated and determined the shooting was accidental. The 17-year-old stayed at the scene and cooperated; a juvenile petition was filed by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office charging the teen with minor in possession of a firearm, a Class C felony. Family and friends held a vigil at the Tarrant Senior Center and funeral services were conducted at 22nd Avenue Baptist Church, where his mother Laness Wynn pleaded for teens to put the guns down.

Does anyone have information about the circumstances that led to a loaded gun being in the car that day?