A 3-year-old boy named Jajuan Robinson, also known as Junior, died on October 21, 2024, after he found an unsecured, loaded firearm in a northeast Minneapolis apartment and was fatally shot in the head. He was at home with a babysitter while his mother, Charlotte Williams, was at work. First responders took the child to a hospital, where he died shortly after arriving.

Family remembered Jajuan as lively and playful, with a love of dinosaurs, superheroes and fishing; his aunt Meshia Woods called him so silly and goofy and a mama’s boy. The babysitter, identified as Elliot Staples III, was arrested and faces a manslaughter charge. The criminal complaint says Staples set his gun on a kitchen island, went to the bathroom, heard a gunshot and told investigators he normally left the gun on top of the refrigerator but had not done so that day.

The investigation into the precise sequence of events remains ongoing. If anyone knew Jajuan, the household’s routines that day, or has information about the incident, please come forward.