BROOKDALE, MD.—Police and EMTs responded to a 911 call on Tuesday night on Fox Tail Drive, where a four-year-old boy shot his infant sister, aged four months, in the head. According to police, the toddler was playing with a gun left unattended by his father. The infant was pronounced dead at the scene.
Prosecutors are declining to discuss the incident as the investigation is ongoing, but it is believed no charges will be brought. The boy’s name is being withheld since he is a minor. Consequently, the Times will not reveal the names of the parents, as that would expose the child.
Acknowledgments
I can’t get anything done without the people who tolerate me on a daily basis and make it possible to write in the first place.
Thank you to Morgan Baden, Eric Lyga, and Paul Griffin, beta readers par excellence.
Thank you, too, to my agent, Kathleen Anderson, for always pushing her hardest, both on the books themselves and for the benefit of my career.
My editors on this book, Alvina Ling and Allison Moore, questioned me where I needed to be questioned and pushed where I needed to be pushed. Thank you so much.
Thanks also to Nikki Garcia, Kheryn Callender, Victoria Stapleton, Jessica Shoffel, Marisa Finkelstein, Jeff Campbell… the whole team at Little, Brown, especially the folks in Marketing, Sales, Publicity, and Production. It takes a lot of people to make a book… and the LB people are the best.