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On the morning of August 16, 2022, 26-year-old Summer Faith Bryant was killed in a drive-by shooting on East Gibson Street in Cedartown, Georgia. Bryant was walking with her mother, Julie Thigpen, at about 3:00 a.m. when gunfire erupted from a passing vehicle. Bryant was struck and died at the scene; her mother suffered a gunshot wound to the face but survived. A man who had been walking with them was unharmed.

Police arrested 57-year-old Randy Feleciano McClarity Sr. later that same morning about four miles away in the Collard Valley Road area. Bryant and her mother had been living with McClarity, and investigators said that close living arrangements suggested a domestic component, though a definitive motive was not immediately released. McClarity was charged with murder, malice murder and three counts of aggravated assault and was booked into the Polk County Jail.

The killing devastated the local community and left a family grieving. Did anyone in Cedartown know Summer, her family, or the people who lived at that residence and have information to share?