On a late December Monday in Atlanta, 15-year-old Xziria Terrell was killed and another person seriously wounded in what investigators describe as a shooting that began after an argument. At about 3:30 a.m., police responded to a home on Washington Street in the Peoplestown neighborhood and found Xziria with a fatal gunshot wound to her shoulder; she was pronounced dead at the residence.

Nearby on Haygood Street, 26-year-old Orlando Simalton was found with four gunshot wounds to his chest and leg and was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in stable condition. Authorities say the shooting followed an apparent argument between the alleged shooter and Simalton.

A 17-year-old male, Kedrick Butler, was initially detained for a separate shots-fired incident on the same street and later linked to Xziria’s death and Simalton’s wounding. Warrants for murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony were obtained on New Year’s Eve, and Butler was held in the Fulton County Jail without bond; jail records also listed unrelated charges of theft by receiving and obstruction from months earlier.

If anyone in Peoplestown that night saw or heard anything that could help, please share what is known with investigators.