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Rahkeem Zabaleta Brown was 16 and a student at Homestead High School when he was killed in a drive-by shooting on October 18, 2015. He was ambushed while picking up a baby pitbull for a friend near 14121 SW 280th Street in Naranja, about a block from his home. Shots from a dark-colored car struck Brown and his friend Tyvontae Robinson; Brown was taken to Kendall Regional Hospital and pronounced dead, while Robinson was critically injured. Witnesses said Brown threw himself on Robinson in an attempt to protect him.

Police and the community believed the attack was retaliatory and possibly connected to a fatal shooting the previous day in Florida City that killed 17-year-old Noricia Talabert and injured two others. Miami-Dade police arrested 15-year-old Dennis Shelby Jr. on October 19, 2015, and charged him with first-degree murder in the drive-by. The case left family and neighbors calling for an end to the cycle of retaliation and violence.

Did anyone in the area see the dark-colored car involved or have information about the events leading up to the shooting?