Alissa Cabrera-Espaillat was 17 and living with her family in a Travelodge motel in Pompano Beach, Florida, when she was killed on November 7, 2020. She lived there with her twin sister, mother and stepfather and had told family she worried about frequent gunfire in the neighborhood. Alissa wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor and hoped to help people suffering from mental illness, like her mother.

On the night she died a shooter fired through the motel window, aiming at a man named Bill in a different room. The gunman mistakenly struck Alissa in the face and shoulder as she leapt from her bed. Her older sister, Jasmine Colon, described the family’s devastation at the senseless loss.

No arrests or suspects have been identified and the investigation is ongoing. If anyone saw activity around the Travelodge on November 7, 2020, or has information about who was looking for Bill, please come forward.