Brady Morris was 18 when he was shot and killed at a Fenton Township home on Saturday, March 4, 2017. He had been staying with the Akl family and was on the first floor with 16-year-old Abdurrahman Ahmed Akl when a 911 call about a teenager shot in the head came in around 11 p.m. Deputies found a semiautomatic pistol on the front porch and Morris unresponsive in a first-floor bedroom with a single gunshot wound to the head; he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

An autopsy showed Morris was shot from behind at point-blank range on the top left side of his head. The county sheriff noted the two teens had a history of playing Russian Roulette but did not believe that was occurring at the time. Akl was taken into custody; a recorded 911 call captured him screaming that he had pointed a gun at his friend and killed him. Prosecutors charged Akl as an adult with murder, possessing a stolen firearm, and two felony firearm counts.

Court proceedings included a competency exam and ultimately a plea in August 2020 in which Akl admitted the gun discharged while the two were handling it.

Did anyone who knew Brady or the Akl family notice the teens handling that firearm before March 4, 2017?