On the evening of July 4, 2020, eight-year-old Secoriea A. Turner was fatally shot in Atlanta while riding as a passenger in a Jeep with her mother and a friend. The vehicle was attempting to navigate around a makeshift barricade erected near a Wendy’s that had been a focal point for protests following the police killing of Rayshard Brooks. As the driver tried to pass, at least one person from the group opened fire; Secoriea was struck and later died at a nearby hospital.

Investigators arrested two men in connection with the shooting, Julian Conley and Jerrion McKinney. Prosecutors say Conley fired an AR-15 style rifle into the Jeep. McKinney is accused not of firing but of stopping the vehicle and chasing it as it fled, and both were indicted on multiple charges tied to the killing and related gang and weapons offenses.

The killing of such a young child at a protest site raises urgent questions about crowd control, the presence of armed groups at makeshift barricades, and how that night unfolded for the occupants of the Jeep. If anyone saw the vehicle, the barricade, or the moments when shots were fired, please come forward with information.