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On the evening of August 27, 2021, eight-year-old Fanta Bility was struck and killed by police gunfire while leaving a high school football game at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. Fanta had been attending the game with her mother and younger sister to watch her older sister cheerlead. A dispute between two teenagers, 16-year-old Angelo AJ Ford and 18-year-old Hasein Strand, erupted into gunfire about a block from the stadium, and responding Sharon Hill officers Brian Devaney, Sean Dolan, and Devon Smith fired 25 shots toward a car they believed was involved. Officers’ rounds sprayed into the crowd; Fanta was shot in the back and died in her mother’s arms, and others including Fanta’s 12-year-old sister were wounded.

Prosecutors initially charged Ford and Strand with first-degree murder under a theory of transferred intent, but a grand jury later dropped those murder charges and instead the three officers were charged with voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and multiple counts of reckless endangerment; all three officers were fired.

Are there witnesses who were leaving the game that night or anyone with video of the moments after the gunfire who can help clarify what happened?