Realtime Database Returns Different Data Same Child Location

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{ "userInfo": { "user123": { "firstName": "Billy", "lastName": "Bob" }, "user456": { "firstName": "James", "lastName": "Jimmy" } } }

I have a database that looks like the one above. I have a widget that shows you rows of all users, and it does so by getting a stream from userInfo/ . For each of those row entries you can click on them and be directed to the user's profile page. When loading the profile page, I make a get call with the path to the child "userInfo/user123". Unexpectedly this call returns a map of all the children under userInfo.

What's even more bewildering is at an earlier point in the app I made this same request and it returned the data as I expected {"firstName": "Billy", "lastName": "Bob"}.

Is this interaction with a stream to the parent and a call to one of its children legal? I hope this example isn't too confusing, I thought it would be easier to discuss a concrete example versus the issue in the abstract.

Any help on this matter would be unbelievably appreciated. Thank you.