Toddler Finds Loaded Glock, Shoots and Kills Himself

Kiaire Marquis McCoy, a two-year-old from Kentwood, Michigan, found a loaded gun and shot and killed himself. His mother’s boyfriend, Markus Nevills Jr., 22, was sitting on a couch in the apartment and had tucked his Glock 22, a .40 caliber handgun, between a couch seat cushion and the armrest. Nevills admits that he was “zoned out” on marijuana and wasn’t paying attention as Kiaire crawled on the couch and found the gun. Nevills has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

A relative who created a GoFundMe page to help with funeral costs wrote, “Kiaire was very well loved, he was so joyful, outgoing, and such a busy body. [He] loved his 4-year-old big brother very much [and] the two of them were inseparable. To know Kiaire is to love him!”

This case provides a good example of one of the many problems with federal immunity for gun dealers. Because Nevills has essentially admitted to criminal negligence, it would be difficult for Kiaire’s family to sue Glock for the recklessness involved in designing a gun that even a toddler can fire.

Source:

John Tunison, “Man ‘Zoned Out’ on Marijuana When Toddler Shot Himself in Head: Court Records,” mlive.com (May 23, 2023).