A two-year-old boy, Devonte Dawnell Joseph Chambers Jr., died from a gunshot wound at a home on Sora Drive in Baton Rouge on August 4, 2024. The child’s father, 29-year-old Devonte Chambers, had taken him into a bedroom for a nap, put on a movie, and fell asleep. He later awoke to a gunshot and found that his son had discovered a pistol that had been placed under the father’s pillow and had been shot.

Police booked the father into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on a charge of negligent homicide. Investigators reported a partially smoked blunt next to the bed and said the father admitted to smoking it earlier that morning. The case underscores the consequences of an unsecured firearm in a home with a young child.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything that afternoon or have information about the circumstances leading up to the child finding the gun?