Two-year-old Lincoln Andrew Harmon died on December 8, 2021, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, after being shot inside the family home. Police say the firearm was accessed by Lincoln’s four-year-old brother, who climbed onto a kitchen counter and retrieved a loaded gun from a top shelf; the weapon was discharged and fatally wounded Lincoln.

Lincoln’s father, Jonathan Harmon, a Santa Fe police officer, was investigated along with the rest of the family but the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office declined to pursue criminal charges. Officials cited the absence, at the time, of a specific legal duty to secure firearms beyond the reckless endangerment standard in the child abuse statute; the Bennie Hargrove Act now addresses firearm access by children but did not apply retroactively to this 2021 death.

Did anyone in the Rio Rancho area have information about the household or the events of that day?