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Seven-year-old Heidy Janeth Rivas Villanueva was killed on August 11, 2018, in Jacksonville, Florida, when a stray bullet struck her in the head while she sat in a parked car with her father and younger sibling outside the El Tapatio market on 103rd Street. Her mother was shopping inside the market; her father rushed her to a nearby hospital but she died in his arms.

Investigators tied the shooting to a botched robbery staged as a gun sale. Four men were arrested. Abrion Price and Trevonte Phoenix were each sentenced to 30 years for second-degree murder (with Price subject to a 10-year minimum and Phoenix to a 20-year minimum). Stanley Harris III received a 25-year sentence, including 20 years for third-degree murder and five years for firing a weapon from a vehicle. Edward Garcia was convicted as an accessory after the fact and credited for time served but remained detained on separate pending charges in Tallahassee.

Heidy’s parents, Anjelica Villanueva and Leonel Rivas, had moved from Honduras; they described their daughter as bright and ambitious, who wanted to become a doctor. What can readers who knew the family or witnessed the scene that day add to the record?