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On the evening of October 17, 2014, six-year-old Angel Hooper was killed in a drive-by shooting in the south side of Kansas City, Missouri. Angel had been at a 7-Eleven on Blue Ridge Boulevard with her father and a family friend when gunshots were fired from a passing white Pontiac Grand Prix. The shots were aimed at occupants of a nearby parked black Mazda believed by the shooters to be connected to an earlier dispute; Angel and her father were bystanders. A bullet struck Angel in the head; she was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead that night.

Family described her as a sweet first-grader who loved school and her younger brother, and her death prompted candlelight vigils and calls for justice in the community. Two men, Howard K. Chase IV, 19, and LeAndre Smith, 21, were arrested and charged; both were convicted or pleaded guilty and received lengthy prison sentences.

Does anyone have information about witnesses or the earlier dispute that led to the shooting?