DelVonte Jenkins was 14 when he was shot and killed in Las Vegas on the evening of December 21, 2014. He was in the backyard of his home in the 3600 block of Elegant Saint Court, near Pecos and Gowan roads, with a group of friends when a single gunshot rang out. Family members inside heard the shot and found DelVonte lying in the yard with a chest wound; he was taken to University Medical Center and pronounced dead.

DelVonte’s family told reporters they believe the shooting was accidental and said one of the friends present had a handgun that discharged. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s homicide unit opened an investigation and treated the death as a homicide, but in the days after the shooting police did not say whether they considered it accidental or intentional. No arrests or suspects were publicly identified in the immediate aftermath.

Was anyone in the neighborhood that night able to see or hear something that could help explain how the gun came to be fired?