Tara Correa‑McMullen, born Shalvah McMullen on May 24, 1989, was a young actress best known for the role of Graciela Reyes on the CBS series Judging Amy. On October 21, 2005, at age 16, she was shot and killed outside her apartment complex in Inglewood, California while standing with two men, Jonithan Turnage and Jacare Smith. Both men were wounded and survived.

Damien Watts, armed with an AK‑47, and accomplice Joseph Wayne Jones, who had a handgun, began shooting. Witnesses identified Watts as the shooter and a blue shirt left at the scene was cited as physical evidence linking him to the crime. Police arrested Watts and Jones the next day during a traffic stop; investigators tied the same AK‑47 to the killing of Thomas Sanders the previous day.

Tara had recently moved into her own apartment and was dating a man named Christopher Avery, described as being ten years older. The case raises the question of how a teenage actress came to be caught in deadly gang violence in her own neighborhood; anyone with information about Tara, that night, or the people present is asked to come forward.