Three-year-old Liam Morrison died at home in Summerville, South Carolina, on June 29, 2023, after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He had been left unsupervised in his parents’ upstairs bedroom and was using a tablet when a loud noise brought his mother, Sierra Morrison, to the room. Emergency personnel transported Liam to Summerville Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The Dorchester County Coroner’s Office ruled the death an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Investigators from the Summerville Police Department and the State Law Enforcement Division found that the bedroom’s gun cabinet had been locked, but a loaded firearm had been left unsecured in the top drawer of a nightstand. That unsecured weapon was the one the child accessed. On July 14, 2023, Sierra Morrison turned herself in and was charged with unlawful conduct toward a child, a felony carrying up to ten years in prison.

Are there readers who lived in White Gables in 2023 or who have information about the household’s history with firearms?