KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A metro family says they forgive a 24-year-old father, who is charged with murder in his daughter’s death. It comes as the family gathered to remember the little girl. Two-year-old Shaquille Kornegay got ahold of a loaded handgun and shot and killed herself last week.

“It’s hard… every time I would come here, I would see her… peeking out the window,” said Da’ Lesja Kornegay.

Kornegay would see her niece Shaquille smiling ear to ear, anxiously waiting at a screen door. The screen door is now covered in the baby girl’s blood. It was one week ago, police say Shaquille found her dad’s loaded handgun and shot herself in the head. Her father, Courtenay Block ran outside, screaming for help as his daughter bled in his arms. It was too late, little Shaquille died not long after.

Thursday night, family and friends came back to the gruesome scene. Little hands of the baby girl’s cousins clenched tight. Shaquille’s mother couldn’t breathe through the tears, nearly passing out in the middle of the vigil, overwhelmed that her daughter is gone.

“She always goes right back to baby girl,” Kornegay said.

Family says Shaquille was spirited and always joyful. They say she shared a very close bond with her father, a man they say they have forgiven.

“He was a good father. As far as I know… he was good to his kids,” Kornegay said.

Block now faces up to 30 years in prison, in the death of his own daughter. While family members aren’t pointing fingers, they say little Shaquille’s life should’ve never ended this way.

“Please put up the guns. Keep them locked. Put them in the trash. Just get rid of them for all I care. I don’t want any more guns,” Kornegay said.

Prosecutors requested that Shaquille dad’s bond be raised to $250,000. Shaquille’s funeral will be held this weekend.