A group of children were alone inside a southeast Wichita apartment earlier this month when a 4-year-old found a loaded gun and fired it at a 7-year-old boy, accidentally killing him while their moms and other relatives drank tequila in a car outside.
Tasha D. Dillard, the 25-year-old resident of the apartment where the shooting occurred, is now charged with first-degree felony murder in the death of 7-year-old Davion Gunter Jr. after the children told police the firearm came from Dillard’s purse. She is also charged with multiple counts of aggravated endangering of a child. Dillard has denied having a gun that night, court records say. She “is contesting the charges against her,” her lawyer wrote in a March 25 request to reduce her $500,000 bond.
A probable cause affidavit released by a Sedgwick County judge this week gives new details about what happened at the Planeview neighborhood apartment, in the 3700 block of East Ross Parkway, leading up to the deadly shooting. Wichita police have said previously that officers called to the shooting at 12:26 a.m. March 16 found Davion bleeding from a gunshot wound to the ches t. The boy later died at a Wichita hospital where he was taken for treatment…