On the evening of April 15, 2022, 10-year-old Amare Rasaun Mayberry-Campbell was fatally shot in a Minneapolis apartment. Amare, a Black / African American boy and resident of Andover, was in the apartment with his 12-year-old brother when the older child found a handgun. Emergency services arrived about 11:35 p.m.; first responders began CPR and rushed Amare to a hospital, but he was pronounced dead at 11:51 p.m. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death a gunshot wound.

According to the 12-year-old’s account to investigators, he found the gun under a pillow in his father’s bedroom, carried it toward the living room, and it slipped; while trying to catch it he accidentally pulled the trigger and the weapon discharged, striking Amare in the chest. Police searching the apartment later recovered eight firearms, several loaded. The boys’ father, 31-year-old Brandon L. Mayberry, was arrested on a warrant and charged with second-degree manslaughter for failing to secure the firearms that the children accessed.

Does anyone have information about how the gun was stored or about the events that night that could help clarify what happened?