On the evening of December 17, 2023, two-year-old Charlee Teyana Gamble was brought to a Baltimore hospital with a single, fatal gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at 8:14 p.m. Security footage from an apartment complex in the 6000 block of Park Heights Avenue shows her father, 28-year-old Christopher Gamble, running from the building with Charlee in his arms; she was bleeding from the head and appeared unconscious. He drove her to the hospital, left her with staff, returned with the child’s mother, and later came back wearing different clothes and stayed with police.

Investigators found blood in and outside the family’s apartment, biological matter on a bedroom carpet, a small hole in the bedroom ceiling, and recovered a 9mm bullet from the apartment directly above. No firearm or shell casings were recovered at the scene. Authorities determined Charlee and her father were the only two people in the master bedroom when the shooting occurred. Gamble, prohibited from possessing firearms because of a 2021 assault conviction, told police he had illegally bought a gun and left it on the TV stand, suggesting Charlee shot herself.

Christopher Gamble was arrested on December 20, 2023, and charged with first- and second-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death, and gun offenses. Did anyone living in or near the Park Heights building see anything the night Charlee was shot?