Tierra Franklin was 17 and in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services when she was fatally shot outside a McDonald’s in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood on July 1, 2022, around 3 p.m. A 19-year-old, Anthony Heredia, was summoned to the scene by an unidentified friend of the employees. Heredia arrived on a bicycle, confronted Tierra in the parking lot and shot her twice in the back as she tried to flee toward a car.

Family members took Tierra to St. Anthony Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Surveillance footage reportedly captured the shooting and showed Heredia returning to retrieve a shell casing; a matching casing was later found in his possession. Heredia was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon and was held without bail. Tierra had recently lost her mother to cancer in April 2022 and her father to gun violence when she was five; she had been planning to start her senior year at Curie High School and wanted to become a lawyer.

Does anyone who was in the Little Village area on July 1, 2022, or who knew Tierra, have information that could shed more light on what led to the confrontation?