On the afternoon of August 18, 2015, 31-year-old Divine Vaniah Chambliss was found unresponsive in a Birmingham apartment by the mother of his children. She had been at work and left Chambliss caring for their two-year-old son; on her return she discovered him in bed with a single gunshot wound to the head. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators found no sign of forced entry and said the physical evidence did not fit a suicide. Detectives concluded the fatal shot was fired by the couple’s two-year-old, who reportedly told his mother he hurt his dad. Family members said Chambliss, a church security guard, regularly carried a firearm and was known to keep the safety engaged; it is thought a semiautomatic pistol had been placed under a pillow and the child found it. The Jefferson County Medical Examiner had completed an autopsy with a ruling pending as the case was treated as a tragic accident and no conventional suspect or arrest was reported.

Did anyone know about how the weapon was stored in that apartment or see the family in the days before August 18?