One-year-old Monterrius Daddy Brown died on February 15, 2021, after being struck by a gunshot wound at the Chamber Cove Apartment Complex in Macon, Georgia. The child was in his mother’s apartment while friends were there to do laundry. A visitor, 30-year-old John Demetrius Simmons of Garden City, brought a loaded 9mm handgun, set it down on a chair and left it unattended. Monterrius wandered to the chair, handled the firearm, which discharged, and the boy was shot in the abdomen. He was taken to a nearby hospital, underwent emergency surgery, and later died of his injuries.

Simmons, a previously convicted felon for armed bank robbery, was taken into custody after it was determined the gun was his. In March 2023 Simmons pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with Monterrius Brown’s death.