An 11-year-old boy, Montrez Burroughs, died after a firearm discharged while he and a 12-year-old playmate were handling it at a house in the 1400 block of Church Street in west Savannah on a Friday night in early April 2014. The shooting happened around 9 p.m.; Montrez was taken to Memorial University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department Violent Crimes detectives opened an investigation. The 12-year-old who had been with Montrez was taken into custody and later charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct, and possession of a firearm by a person under the age of 18; he was held at the Regional Youth Detention Center. Few other facts about how the firearm came to be in the house or about the boys’ families are provided.

Did anyone in west Savannah around Church Street in early April 2014 see or hear anything that could shed light on how the children obtained the gun?