Karma Wezowicz was 7 when she was shot inside an apartment on South Cypress Street in Beebe, Arkansas, the evening of February 27, 2017. First responders found her in her father’s arms with a single gunshot wound to the head; she was airlifted to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, placed on a ventilator, pronounced brain dead on March 1, and died on March 4, 2017.

Investigators determined that 26-year-old Jeremiah Owens had been visiting a friend at the apartment and was handling the friend’s new handgun when it discharged in his lap. The bullet passed through the loveseat next to him and struck Karma near her right eye. Owens told police he did not know the firearm was loaded. He was initially arrested on battery charges that were upgraded to manslaughter after Karma’s death; court records show he pleaded guilty to manslaughter on July 7, 2017, and was sentenced to five years in August 2017.

Obituary and memorial notices identify Karma by name and community, matching law-enforcement accounts of the shooting and the short interval between injury and passing. Did anyone in the Beebe area have information about the apartment or the events that evening?