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Twelve-year-old Artemis Rayford was killed on Christmas morning 2021 at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, when a stray bullet fired from outside the residence pierced the house and struck him in the chest. The boy called for his mother and collapsed into her arms; he had been playing with a new video game moments earlier.

Shortly before his death Artemis, then a sixth-grader, had written a letter to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee as part of a school program expressing fear that a recent law easing handgun carry restrictions would lead to people being murdered. His family only learned of the letter after he was killed.

The Memphis Police Department investigated and described the shooting as a senseless act of violence. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced; the case remains unsolved. Does anyone have information about the shooting or recall seeing activity in that neighborhood on Christmas morning 2021?