Antonio Rucker Jr. was fatally shot on the evening of November 4, 2016, in Kansas City, Kansas. The one-year-old Black boy was seated in his mother’s car parked outside a Little Caesars near 75th and State Avenue while his father was inside the restaurant when a single gunshot struck him. His mother ran into the pizza shop screaming that her baby had been shot; first responders took Antonio to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where he died two months shy of his second birthday.

Investigators reported that a firearm had been inside the vehicle with Antonio, his mother, and another person. Authorities concluded the shooting was a tragic accident and said their focus was on how the gun was discharged; no charges or arrests were announced. Family members remembered Antonio as a bright child who doted on his baby sister, Mia, often trying to help with diaper changes and holding her hand from his car seat.

Did anyone see or hear anything that night around 75th and State Avenue that could help clarify how the gun discharged?