On November 4, 2018, two-year-old Liam Paul Lee Mankins suffered a fatal gunshot wound at his home on Birch Street in Baker City, Oregon. Emergency crews rushed him to Saint Alphonsus in Baker City and he was later airlifted to Boise, where he died that afternoon from a single gunshot wound to the head. Both parents were in the home when the injury occurred.

The Baker County Major Crime Team concluded the deadly wound was self-inflicted. Investigators also found methamphetamine in the residence and said the drugs were accessible to the children. Liam’s parents, Peter Lee Mankins and Diana Lynn Goodman, were indicted and arrested on counts including second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, unlawful possession of methamphetamine, endangering the welfare of a minor, and recklessly endangering another person.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember conditions at the Birch Street home that morning or who can add details about the children’s care?