Qylon “Qy” Jamari Thompson was a 3-year-old Black / African American boy who was shot in Shorter, Alabama, on May 22, 2024, in what authorities later characterized as an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot incident. The moments that followed were frantic and surreal for the people who loved him: a child found gravely wounded, adults realizing too late what was within reach, and a race against time that ended with a family’s world split into “before” and “after.”
He did not d
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