Keshana Lathem was a 6-year-old Black girl from Chester, Pennsylvania, killed on October 24, 1987, when a shotgun blast meant for someone else struck her inside a Congress Street home. The attack targeted James Scoop Jackson, 20, who told jurors he had been waiting on a corner for a drug buy when Shaikh Mohammed, 29, also known as Larry Dallam, approached and opened fire shortly before 9 p.m.

A projectile entered Jackson, passed through his body and the front door, and struck Keshana in the head while adults and children were trying to hide in a bathroom. Jackson was also shot in the leg. At trial in the Media Courthouse a jury convicted Mohammed of first-degree murder in Keshana’s death and of attempted murder for wounding Jackson; Jackson identified Mohammed in court. Reports do not provide an arrest date or a complete final sentencing outcome.

Does anyone have memories of the neighborhood or information about Keshana and her family that could help preserve her story?