Malachi Scott was a 9-year-old boy from Little Rock, Arkansas, who died on December 21, 2016. Police say he suffered a gunshot wound to the head at a Romine Road residence and was taken to Arkansas Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a few hours later. Initial reports did not name him, but later memorial and obituary notices identified him as Malachi Jamal Scott and confirmed the date and place.

Contemporaneous accounts state officers found a handgun lying on his chest in the living room. His 11-year-old brother told police the two were home alone, that Malachi retrieved a gun in the house and began playing with it before it discharged, and that the brother ran to a neighbor to call for help. Reporting at the time characterized the shooting as accidental, and no arrests or suspects were named in those initial accounts.

Does anyone have further information about the household circumstances that afternoon or remembers what follow-up, if any, was made after the initial reports?