On the evening of February 8, 2020, 17-year-old Alexis Devoe was sitting in a car near W. 60th and Montgomery streets in Savannah with her five-month-old son and two others when gunfire erupted. Family members say Devoe shielded her infant from the bullets; she was struck and killed, while two other people in the car were wounded. She was a student at A.E. Beach High School and an active member of Tremont Temple Baptist Church.

The Savannah Police Department opened an intensive investigation. Several months later U.S. Marshals arrested 25-year-old Rashaun Padgett at a hotel in Garden City; he was charged with malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault, accused of firing shots toward the occupants of the vehicle. In the Chatham County trial that followed, a jury found Padgett not guilty of Devoe’s murder.

Alexis’s family and community continue to mourn her loss and remember her as a devoted mother. Does anyone have information about that night or knew Alexis and can help fill in unanswered details?