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LaQuanta Franchez Young, a 30-year-old African American woman, was killed on September 6, 2015, in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was outside a house on Echodale Drive during Labor Day weekend when someone fired shots in what has been described as a drive-by shooting; she was hit and later pronounced dead at the hospital.

The Labor Day weekend that year saw a larger outbreak of violence in Charlotte: twelve people were shot and five died, including LaQuanta. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department made one arrest connected to those five killings when 18-year-old Quincy Dushawn McWaine was charged in November 2015 with murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon in the shooting death of Elias Perez. No arrests have been announced in LaQuanta Young’s killing.

Her mother, Sonja Watt, has spoken publicly about her grief and remains in contact with the detective assigned to the case, hoping for justice. Does anyone have information about that night on Echodale Drive or saw LaQuanta that evening?