An 8-year-old boy, Jackson Jack ONeil Bennett, was fatally shot inside his family’s mobile home on Old Michigan Avenue in Canton, Michigan, on the afternoon of December 15, 2020. The shooting occurred about 4 p.m. while Jackson’s father, 33-year-old Nicholas Bennett, was reportedly performing maintenance on a rifle and a single round was discharged, striking the child. Emergency responders transported Jackson to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The family described the death as a tragic accident, saying the gun was believed to be unloaded and that the father was cleaning it as he normally did. Canton police opened an investigation and Nicholas Bennett was taken into custody. In January 2021 the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office charged him with involuntary manslaughter; arraignment was in 35th District Court in Plymouth and further court dates were set for a probable cause conference and preliminary examination.

Does anyone have information about the scene that afternoon or about the family’s mobile home community on Old Michigan Avenue?