Edgar Vasquez was 13 when he died from a shotgun wound at a sleepover in Kelso, Washington, on October 14, 2017. Edgar and another 13-year-old boy were alone at the friend’s grandparents’ home on the 1500 block of Carrol Road when the friend, Dawson A. Dunn, picked up a shotgun he believed to be unloaded, pointed it at Edgar and pulled the trigger. Emergency responders found Edgar with a single upper-body shotgun wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Dunn called 911 and later told investigators he had racked the action, seen a round eject, racked it again and believed the gun was empty. He was arrested in November 2017 and charged with first-degree manslaughter; in April 2018 a Cowlitz County Juvenile Court judge found him guilty of second-degree manslaughter and sentenced him to five months in juvenile detention. Edgar’s grandmother, Carla Tolle, campaigned for Initiative 1639 in his memory to promote stronger gun-storage rules. The boy who owned the shotgun, Edgar’s friend’s grandfather, was not charged.

Did anyone in Kelso remember seeing or hearing anything unusual at that home around the night of October 14, 2017?