Eight-year-old Rasheed Cunningham Jr was shot and killed on December 28, 2016, in Dania Beach, Florida. He was walking home from his cousin’s birthday party with family when a car pulled up in the 200 block of Northwest Ninth Avenue and someone inside opened fire at about 7:40 p.m. Rasheed was struck and later died at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood.

The attack also wounded Rasheed’s cousin Brandon Cunningham, who was shot multiple times in the back while trying to shield the children, as well as another woman and a young girl. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office said this shooting was the fourth in the Dania Beach area since Christmas and that three of the incidents were believed related. Family members described the violence as connected to a long-running feud; Rasheed’s grandfather, Rodney Daughtry, suggested the shooting was retaliatory and tied to an earlier fatality.

A 19-year-old, Arvis Yatil Brown, was arrested in Tallahassee shortly after the incident; authorities said he was believed responsible for a series of retaliatory shootings in the area. Rasheed was remembered by family as a good student and a talented football player. Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to come forward.