On the evening of July 31, 2017, 13-year-old Iyanna Watkins was with friends behind a 7-Eleven on Peterson Road in Middle River, Maryland, when someone emerged from an alley and opened fire on the group. Iyanna, a Black female, was struck multiple times in her upper and lower body and died at the scene. Two men who were with her suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to their lower bodies.

Investigators treated the shooting as a targeted attack linked to an earlier altercation between a friend of the victims and another individual; authorities say Iyanna appears to have been an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire. Two 19-year-old men, Alphonso Frederick Smith and Lee-Austin Eastmond, were arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Iyanna’s death and two counts of attempted murder for the wounded men. Both were held at the Baltimore County Department of Corrections.

Does anyone have information about that night or knew Iyanna and can help fill gaps in the timeline leading up to the shooting?