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On the evening of December 22, 2015, 15-year-old Shamairie Joseph was inside an apartment in the 1600 block of Apache Drive in Harvey, Louisiana, holding a toddler when a stray bullet penetrated the wall and struck her in the chest. The shot was fired during an exchange tied to an ongoing dispute: 20-year-old Romalis Levier fired at Emmett Garrison IV in retaliation for a prior shooting, and one bullet missed its intended target and entered the nearby apartment. A 16-year-old boy was also wounded in the same incident.

Investigators arrested Levier. As his trial approached, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Shamairie’s death, to attempted second-degree murder in the shooting of Garrison, and to obstruction of justice, and accepted the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. Two others were accused of attempting to destroy evidence related to the killing. Shamairie’s mother and aunt gave emotional impact statements in court; her mother publicly said she forgave Levier but that Shamairie would never return.

If anyone knew Shamairie, the apartment’s occupants, or saw activity in the 1600 block of Apache Drive on December 22, 2015, what information can be shared?