On April 21, 2020, three-year-old Ruby Jackson was shot in the chest inside her family home on Moore Circle in Westminster, Colorado. First responders transported Ruby to a nearby hospital, but she died of her wounds. The child’s seven-year-old brother told investigators the two were playing a game of swords when he found a shotgun left unsecured on a couch, picked it up and pushed what he described as a button; the firearm discharged. He also told interviewers he had played with the same gun the day before when it had not been loaded.

Their mother, Michaela Dawn Harman, was in the house and later told detectives she had loaded the shotgun the evening before and brought it downstairs where the children could access it. In May 2021 Harman pleaded guilty to a felony count of child abuse negligently causing serious bodily injury; the plea took into account the trauma to the surviving son and the caregivers’ wish to avoid a trial, and her expected sentence included probation with mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Does anyone have information about safety practices or witnesses from that Westminster neighborhood on April 20–21, 2020?