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China Marie Lyons-Upshaw was a 17-year-old Chicago student who was shot in the chest and killed inside an apartment in the Bronzeville neighborhood on May 26, 2018. Witnesses said a man was handling a handgun when it fell and discharged, striking China just weeks before her scheduled high school graduation and prom.

Nicknamed China Doll for her love of fashion and makeup, she planned to study cosmetology after high school. The shooting prompted criminal charges: 19-year-old Nicholas Holas turned himself in and was charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter and was held on $100,000 bond.

Her funeral drew roughly 400 people, and family and community members remembered her as loving and vibrant. If anyone knew China, her friends, or saw activity in that apartment around May 26, 2018, please share what you know.